Case ID: miss_24/html/0527-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Yerger", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lewis Presley vs. Thomas Stribling ; Same vs. Holloway E. Simmons.
    A court of equity would maintain the cestui que trust in the possession and use of the property against the claim of the trustee; yet a court of law, looking only at the legal title, .could not notice this right, and therefore cannot enforce it.
    In error from the. circuit court of Neshoba county; Hon. John "Watts, judge.
    The facts are contained in the opinion of the court, and the preceding case.
    
      Wharton, Guión & Baine, for appellant.
    
      W. E. Pugh, on the same side.
    
      Enloe Sf Baldwin, for appellee.
   Mr. Justice Yerger

delivered the opinion of the comb.

These two cases are similar in all respects to the case of Presley v. Rogers, with the exception, that these are actions of replevin brought by the trustee, and that was a suit under the statute to try the right of property.

At first we were inclined to think, inasmuch as the plaintiff in the action of replevin must have the right of immediate possession, that we should be corhpelled to affirm the judgment in these cases, and leave the trustee to pursue his rights in a court of equity. On further - reflection we think, that although a court of equity would maintain Mrs. Edwards in the possession and use of the property against the claim of the trustee; yet a court of law, looking only at the legal title, could not notice this right, and, therefore, could not enforce it. The same judgment must, therefore, be entered in these two cases as in Presley v. Rogers.

Judgment reversed, and cause remanded.