Horn v. Beatty

Citations

• 85 Miss. 504

Syllabus

<p>1. Laches. Cancellation of deeds. Divress.</p> <p>A complainant in a bill to cancel a conveyance for alleged fraud and duress who delays bringing the proceeding for nearly seven years after the date of the instrument, and who receives in the meantime four annual payments of the purchase money, is barred .by laches.</p> <p>3. Same. Case.</p> <p>A decree canceling a conveyance for fraud and duress is' not justified by evidence showing that two years after complainant acquired the half interest in the property constituting the subject of the conveyance and .seventeen years before the filing of the bill, a mineral deposit of alleged medicinal value was discovered on the land, that during several years three different agencies attempted to exploit the sale of the mineral, but failed,- and that it was not until long after complainant had conveyed his half interest to his partner, under a proposition to buy or sell at a . given price, that the mineral was found to be valuable.</p>