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94 Miss. 566

Howell v. Hill

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 15, 1909

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1909-03-15

From the chancery, court of, first district, Yalobusha county. Hon. Isaac T. Blount, Chancellor. Hill and another, appellees, were complainants in the court below: Mrs. Howell and others, appellees, were defendants there. From a decree in complainants’ favor defendants appealed to the supreme court. The land in controversy was the homestead of Elijah Bard-well who with his wife was living thereon in September 1904.

Relies on Duncan v. Moore

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Decided 1909-03-15

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Eletoheb, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2While it is true that the husband signed and acknowledged the deed conveying the homestead in September, and the wife’s signature and acknowledgment bear date of the May following, yet both signed the same instrument in furtherance of an intention to which there was manifestly a common and contemporaneous assent. The case is totally unlike Duncan v. Moore, 67 Miss. 136, 7 South. 221, in which case the alleged assent of the wife was evidenced by a separate deed of conveyance, executed by the wife subsequently to the husband’s deed, and made without the husband’s consent. In the case before us the wife signed with full knowledge and consent of the husband, and this is surely sufficient.

¶3*572Upon tbe point made as to the conveyance from Bardwell to Howell -operating as an assignment to Howell of Bardwell’s lien for tbe unpaid purchase money, we think it is clear that section 2444 of the Annotated Code of 1892 is without application. That statute deals with an estate in lands, and the right which a vendor has to subject the land sold to the payment of 'the purchase money is not such a “right or estate in the lands” as this staute contemplates. This debt goes to the personal representative of the deceased vendor, and not to the junior grantee ■of the lands.

¶4There being' no satisfactory evidence of estoppel, the legal title must prevail, and it is clearly shown to be in the appellees.

¶5Affirmed.

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