Mes sued to recover land granted to his ancestor Neshi under Ahmose I, after a court ruled against his mother on a false register

Under Ahmose I, the king gave an estate to the treasurer Neshi as a reward. His descendants held it as one family property. Under Horemheb the family went to court: Urnero was made administrator for her siblings, a relative, Takharu, appealed for a division, and Urnero and her son Huy went back to court and regained control. Huy farmed the land until he died. Then an administrator named Khay took it. Huy's widow Nubnofret sued Khay before the vizier at Heliopolis. Registers were brought from the treasury and granary at Per-Ramessu. The court was told "Thou art not inscribed in them," and the vizier ruled against her. Some years later her son Mes, a scribe of the treasury of Ptah at Memphis, appealed. He said "it is a false register that has been made against me." Alan Gardiner reads the text as saying Khay and the priest Amenemopet tampered with the registers. Witnesses, the men first and then the women, testified that Huy had cultivated the land "from year to year." The end of the text is lost. Gardiner concluded that the verdict went to Mes and that he was restored to his inheritance. Mes had the whole case carved in his tomb chapel at Saqqara, which Victor Loret excavated. Most of the inscribed blocks are now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo^†. The estate itself cannot be located today.