DELANCY v. DAVIS

No. 40330.

229 Miss. 475 (1956)

91 So.2d 286

DELANCY, et al. v. DAVIS, et ux.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 17, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason Floyd, English Lindsey, Gulfport, for appellants.

Louis Hengen, Biloxi, for appellees.


LEE, J.

This is an appeal by John Delancey and others, defendants and cross-complainants, from a decree of the chancery court which confirmed the title of Clifford Davis and wife to eighty acres of land, as described therein, and dismissed the cross bill of the defendants.

The complainants pled, and the proof showed that Richard C. Delancey, the ancestor of the defendants, patented the land in question on April 12...

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