Mississippi Supreme Court, 1907

Catchot v. Zeigler

Catchot v. Zeigler
Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided October 15, 1907 · Whitfield
92 Miss. 191; 45 So. 707

Counsel

Harper '& Harper and E. A. Clarhj for appellant., W. R. Harper, on the same side., Ford, White & Ford, for appellee.

Catchot v. Zeigler

Opinion of the Court

Whitfield, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Section 550, Code 1906, provides that any owner of “real es-> tate” may file a bill to remove clouds from his title thereto. The right, and the only right, which the appellee had, and this is not disclosed, was the right to plant and take oysters in the bay of Biloxi in front of this property. This right was nothing but a mere privilege or license, and not “real estate,” within the meaning of this statute in any proper legal sense.

The decree is reversed, and the bill dismissed.

BeversecL

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