STEBBINS v. HAYES

No. 51600.

379 So.2d 898 (1980)

Mrs. Kathryn S. STEBBINS et al. v. Mrs. Lillian Mae HAYES.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 30, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cox & Dunn, Vardaman S. Dunn, Heidelberg, Woodliff & Franks, George F. Woodliff, III, Jackson, for appellants.

McLaurin & McLaurin, John C. McLaurin, Brandon, O.B. Triplett, Jr., Forest, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and SUGG and BROOM, JJ.


BROOM, Justice, for the Court:

"Joint venture" was the relationship decreed to have existed between J. Ray Stebbins and R.E. Hayes, both now deceased, during the 1940's when Hayes purchased various mineral rights (located in several counties) in Stebbins' name. Hayes' widow, appellee Mrs. Lillian Mae Hayes, filed suit in the Chancery Court, Second Judicial District of Jasper County against the defendants (appellants) Mrs. Kathryn S. Stebbins and two of her grantees...

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