Southworth v. Brownlow

Citations

• 84 Miss. 405

Syllabus

<p>1. Married Women. Coverture. Emancipation. Code 1871, <i 2323. Code 1880, § 1167. Constitution 1890, sec. 94. Code 1892, § 2289.</p> <p>Code 1871, § 2323, providing that no act of the husband should affect the wife’s interest m land, ceased to be operative when married women were wholly emancipated from all disability on account of coverture. Code 1880, § 1167; Constitution 1890, sec. 94; Code 1892, § 2289.</p> <p>2. Estates or Decedents. Contract for sale of land. Spedficperformance.</p> <p>Where the administrator of a decedent who contracted to convey lands is not a party to the suit, and complainant admits that the decedent was without title, specific performance of the contract should not be decreed.</p>