Pierce v. Hunter

Citations

• 73 Miss. 754

Syllabus

<p>1. Equity. Bill to remove clouds. ComplaAmxmts’ Utle.</p> <p>A bill to remove a cloud upon title is not maintainable where the complainants fail to aver or show title in themselves.</p> <p>2. Same. Oase.</p> <p>Complainants in a bill to remove a cloud upon title, are entitled to no relief when their only averment or showing of title is a deed made to them and others, as trustees of a neighborhood school having no corporate existence, regular or irregular, which deed had been in fact surrendered to the grantor in pursuance of a change of plan agreed on by nearly all of those who paid the purchase money, tog-ether with others of the neig-hborhood interested in education, whereby the new deed to the land attacked by the bill was executed by the grantor to certain persons as trustees of á school of a different name, larger capacity and higher grade, but having the same patrons.</p>