70 Miss. 324 | Miss. | 1892
delivered the opinion of the court.
Bills for partition, at common law, were of infrequent occurrence, and applicable only in a solitary case — in proceedings for division of lands held in coparcenary. Bnder our laws, partition of lands held by joint-tenants, tenants in common and coparceners having an estate in possession,
One of the complainants is yet a minor, and the other has only just attained her majority. They have not appealed from the original decree, but have filed their bill of review within the time prescribed by the general, law for taking bills of review in the chancery courts. Under the general law, § 2681, code 1880, the law applicable to other suits in the chancery court, “bills of review in chancery shall be filed within two years next after the date of the final decree in the cause, and not after; saving to persons under auy disability, as hereinbefore mentioned [§ 2677], the like period of two years after the removal of such disability.”
The appellants were entitled, to an ordinary bill of review, and the action of the court in dismissing their bill outright was erroneous. They should be required to restrict their demand for relief to such as may be afforded them under the ordinary bill of review in chancery. One of the .complainants is still a minor, and the other has just reached her majority, and the court, as the guardiau of the minor’s interests, should have treated the bill as the ordinary one for review, and heard and determined the case in that aspect of the rights of the parties. Though mistaken as to the precise
Reversed, and remanded for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion.