Smith v. Doehler Metal Furniture Co.

Appellee filed his bill in the chancery court of Forrest County, alleging that the appellees, Doehler Metal Furniture Company and Famous-Barr Company, nonresident corporations, were indebted to him in the sum of $1,500; and that the Mississippi Southern College, domiciled in said county, was indebted to the said nonresident corporations in a greater sum; and he made the college a party defendant to his bill, seeking to avail of Sections 173 et seq., Code 1930, which are the sections which provide a remedy by attachment in chancery.

The college, through the Attorney General, filed in limine a…