Mississippi Supreme Court April 15, 1881 (McPherson v. Reese)

Chalmers, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court. ■

We held in McCarley v. Board of Supervisors, ante, p. 483, that a party complainant would not, in a court of equity, be permitted to obtain affirmative relief based upon his omission to affix a seal or scroll to an instrument delivered by him as a sealed instrument, and containing the words, “witness my hand and seal.