34 Miss. 457 | Miss. | 1857
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a bill filed by the complainant in the Vice-Chancery Court at Eulton, to redeem a slave alleged to be held by the defendant under a mortgage executed by the complainant to one John Walker, in January, 1846.
It appears from the allegations of 'the bill that the complainant
The answer is in every respect responsive to the bill, and sets up, in addition, that Walker, about 1849, made his will, bequeathing the slave to the defendant; that Walker soon thereafter died, and that his will was duly established in the proper court. The same facts are alleged in the bill. The suit was not commenced until the 13th of November, 1854.
Under this statement of the case, it is only necessary to notice the defence made under the Statute of Limitations. Walker, by his will bequeathing the slave to the defendant, asserted an absolute title; and this put an end to the relation of mortgagor and mortgagee, if in fact that relation ever existed. The bill sets out the time of the probate of the will, and it must, therefore, be presumed, in the absence of any showing to the contrary, that the complainant was then informed of the title asserted by Walker; and the statute commencing to run from that date, constituted a bar before the filing of the bill.
Decree reversed, and bill dismissed.