Chaffe v. Patterson

Citations

• 61 Miss. 28

Syllabus

<p>1. Lxs Pendens. Married women. Purchaser.</p> <p>A bill in chancery to subject a married woman’s separate estate, which is described therein, to an account for plantation and family supplies, under the married woman’s law, does not constitute lis pendens, which binds her estate in the hands of purchasers from her during the pendency of the litigation.</p> <p>2. Same. Subrogation. Qha/ncery pleading.</p> <p>A bill which avers that money advanced by the complainant was used by the defendant to pay a note to a third person which was a lien on land described is notice that substitution to the third person’s rights is claimed, without a prayer for this relief, and a purchaser of the land pendente lite is bound by such a decree.</p>