Blair v. Frank B. Russell & Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit' court of Monroe county. IloN. Claude ClaytoN,' Judge. Suit by attachment by W. F. Blair and wife against Frank B. Russell & Co.,, a partnership. From a judgment for (defendant,' both on. the attachment and debt issues, plaintiffs appeal.
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Appeal from the circuit' court of Monroe county. IloN. Claude ClaytoN,' Judge. Suit by attachment by W. F. Blair and wife against Frank B. Russell & Co.,, a partnership. From a judgment for (defendant,' both on. the attachment and debt issues, plaintiffs appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. v This case is a suit by appellants against appellee under section 4977, Mississippi Code of 1906, which provides as follows: “If any person shall cut down, deaden, destroy or take away, if already cut or' fallen, any cypress, white-oak, black-oak or other oak, pine, poplar,…
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
Appellants sued out an attachment against the ap-pellees, alleging that the appellees were justly indebted unto the appellants in the sum of one thousand, seven hundred and fiftyfive dollars and that the defendants were nonresidents of the state, and that they fraudulently contracted the debt or incurred the obligation for which the suit has been or is about to be instituted. Writ - of attachment was issued, and the sheriff returned that he had levied the writ by taking into possession forty thousand oak staves on the right of way of the Frisco Bailroad valued at twenty-five dollars per…
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