CLANTON v. HATHORN

No. 07-CA-59646.

600 So.2d 963 (1992)

Larry J. CLANTON & Sylvia Clanton v. Frances M. HATHORN.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 27, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Becker, Jr., Watkins & Eager, Jackson, for appellant.

James Robert Gilfoy, IV, Lexington, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and PRATHER and ROBERTSON, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the court:

I.

This rural real property dispute pits a landlady against her former tenant. In happier times, the landlady conveyed to the tenant several acres as a home site. The tenant proceeded to encroach modestly beyond his boundaries. The landlady sued to confirm and remove clouds, and the former tenant has claimed permissive use, laches, estoppel and most every other equitable defense one might imagine.

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