Gulf Compress Co. v. Wooten Cotton Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Coahoma county. Hon. M. E. Denton, Chancellor. Bill'by Gulf Compress Company against Wooten Cotton Company et al. to restrain the prosecution of several actions at law. From a decree dissolving a temporary injunction, complainant appeals.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Coahoma county. Hon. M. E. Denton, Chancellor. Bill'by Gulf Compress Company against Wooten Cotton Company et al. to restrain the prosecution of several actions at law. From a decree dissolving a temporary injunction, complainant appeals. The Wooten Cotton Company, having brought two suits in the circuit court of the second district of Coahoma county, one for damage for negligent handling of cotton stored with the Gulf Compress Company at Clarks dale, Mississippi, and one an action of replevin for certain cotton withheld by said compress company, and another…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
The bill, answers, and exhibits thereto, on which this case was set down for hearing, do not present a cause warranting the interference of equity in order to prevent a multiplicity of suits. Railroad Co. v. Barnes, 94 Miss. 484, 48 South. 823.
Affirmed and remanded.
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Gulf & Ship Island Railroad v. BarnesMississippi Supreme Court · 1909