COTTEN v. COTTEN, ET AL.

No. 38829.

218 Miss. 217 (1953)

67 So.2d 268

37 Adv. S. 10

COTTEN v. COTTEN, et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 5, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest Shelton, Lamar F. Easterling, Jackson, for appellant.

Cassidy, McLain, Alford & Pigott, Roach & Jones and McClaren & Dixon, McComb, for appellees.


ETHRIDGE, J.

This appeal raises the question of whether the facts charged in the bill of complaint can withstand special demurrers pleading that appellant, complainant below, Hilton I. Cotten, is barred from asserting his claim to a trust in lands, personal property and money, by his laches and long neglect in asserting his rights. The Chancery Court of Pike County sustained the special demurrers, and dismissed the bill...

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