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89 Miss. 127

Frederic v. Mayers

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1906

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1906-11-15

From tbe chancery court of Jackson county. Hon. Thaddeus A. Wood, Chancellor. Mrs. Frederic and others, the appellants, were complainants in the court below; Mayers, appellee, was defendant there. The bill sought the cancellation of defendant’s claim to a lot in the town of Scranton as a cloud upon complainants’ title thereto. From a decree wholly in defendant’s favor the complainants appealed to the supreme court.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1950

3 state decisions

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Decided 1906-11-15

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Calhoon, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2By the correspondence in 1874, exhibits “A” and “B” to the bill, Smith got more than a mere license, revocable by Frederic. He got the right to exclusive use of the property, terminable only by his death or ceasing to publish the Star. The successive holders claimed under him. So does Mayers, and he held for twenty years under that right, as was well known to, fully recognized by, and acquiesced in by, Frederic, who, besides, saw Mayers, under that claim, spend a large sum in enlarging the building. Frederic, while alive, fully and accurately defined Mayers’ legal rights, when'he repeatdly said he had the property as long as he published a newspaper thereon, when it would revert to his estate. When Mayers ceases to publish this paper *141there, or dies, Frederic’s heirs are entitled to possession of the fee, but not until then. Mayers has the easement by the statute of limitations and by estoppel.

¶3Affirmed.

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