PATE, ET AL. v. EVANS, ET AL.

No. 40559.

232 Miss. 6 (1957)

97 So.2d 737

PATE, et al. v. EVANS, et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 4, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.J. Currie, Sr., E.J. Currie, Jr., Sullivan & Sullivan, Hattiesburg, for appellants.

Ben Stevens, Hattiesburg; L. Barrett Jones, Jackson, for appellees.


ETHRIDGE, J.

Appellees, complainants in the trial court, Mrs. Ola Cooley Evans, et al, brought this suit in the Chancery Court of Covington County against appellants-defendants, Mrs. Mollie Hodnett Pate, et al, to remove clouds on their title to certain lands. The issues are concerned with a plea of res judicata and the construction of a will.

Complainants are the children of J.H. Cooley by his first wife, who died...

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