90 Miss. 410
Decided March 15, 1907
Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1907-03-15
From the chancery court of Washington county. ITon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Turner Brown, the appellee, was complainant in the court below, and Margaret Ford Brown, the appellant, was defendant there.
Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently November 1936
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Decided 1907-03-15
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¶1delivered the opinion of the court.
¶2The marriage of the parties was null and void. The appellee was an entire stranger and pure volunteer. Tie had no interest whatever in the property, and all his payments were made as a simple volunteer. The case was precisely within the principles announced in the case of Berry v. Bullock, 81 Miss., 463, 33 South., 410, and the authorities therein cited.
¶3The decree is reversed, and demurrer sustained, and the bill dismissed.