CROOK v. COMMERCIAL NAT. BANK & TRUST CO.

No. 50898.

375 So.2d 1006 (1979)

Herbert N. CROOK and Mrs. Bertrez Weems Wheless v. The COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied October 31, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pack, Ratcliff & Ratcliff, Kalford C. Ratcliff, Laurel, for appellants.

Holifield & Harper, Matthew Harper, Laurel, Gerald, Brand, Watters, Cox & Hemleben, Martha W. Gerald, Allie S. Povall, Jr., Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, Ed Brunini, Jr., Jackson, Stewart J. Gilchrist, Laurel, A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Jean R. Richey, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellees.

Before SUGG, WALKER and COFER, JJ.


WALKER, J., for the Court:

This is an appeal from the Chancery Court of the Second Judicial District of Jones County, Mississippi, which held that there was no violation of the mortmain section of the Mississippi Constitution1 and statutes of mortmain2 by the Commercial National Bank and Trust Company, trustee of the trust estate of Charles Samuel Weems, deceased, in holding certain real property and royalty...

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