Baker v. Richardson

Citations

• 96 Miss. 394
• 50 So. 447

Syllabus

<p>1. Lamp and Conveyances. Life estate. Termination. Outstanding titles.</p> <p>Where a deed conveyed a life estate in lands with remainder to the grantor’s heirs and all the parties to the suit for partition held in subserviency to the deed, they cannot defeat the title of the heirs, after termination of the life estate, by setting up an outstanding title. ,</p> <p>2. Same. Tenants in common. Rights of tenants inter se. May not assert strangers’ rights.</p> <p>The same policy of the law which prevents one tenant in common from buying up and successfully asserting as his own an outstanding title against his co-tenant appertains when a co-tenant seeks-by showing the true title in another to defeat another co-tenant, of any right which the latter may undertake to assert.</p>