Catchot v. Zeigler

Decided October 15, 1907

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1907-10-15

From the chancery court of dackson county. Hon. Tiiaddeus A. Wood, Chancellor. Zeigler, appellee, was complainant in the court below, and •Catchot, appellant, was defendant there.

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Decided 1907-10-15

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Whitfield, C. J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2Section 550, Code 1906, provides that any owner of “real es-> tate” may file a bill to remove clouds from his title thereto. The right, and the only right, which the appellee had, and this is not disclosed, was the right to plant and take oysters in the bay of Biloxi in front of this property. This right was nothing but a mere privilege or license, and not “real estate,” within the meaning of this statute in any proper legal sense.

¶3The decree is reversed, and the bill dismissed.

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