Field v. Middlesex Banking Co.

Citations

• 77 Miss. 180

Syllabus

<p>1. Infants. Attainment of majority compromises. Disclosv/re of facts. Fraud.</p> <p>A compromiso made by the beneficiary of a trust, on the day she attained hor majority, of a pending litigation with those who, during her infancy, had acquired the trust estate by fraudulent combination with the trustee, is void in the absence of a disclosure to her of all the material facts within their knowledge.</p> <p>2. Chanceet Practice. Amendments. Remanding to rules.</p> <p>Where the defendants to a suit have, during a protracted litigation, insisted upon the validity of a deed, amend their answer pending a trial, and assert its invalidity, the cause should, on complainant’s application for leave to amend her bill, be remanded to rules for that purpose.</p>