Woods v. Riley
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tlie chancery court of Sunflower county. HoN. W. R. Trigg, Chancellor. The opinion states the facts. 1. Admitting the proposition of opposite counsel to be true, that ordinarily appellant’s remedy would have been by supplemental bill, the rule has no application, because the bill was filed after the former case had been decided and an appeal had been taken therein.
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From tlie chancery court of Sunflower county. HoN. W. R. Trigg, Chancellor. The opinion states the facts. 1. Admitting the proposition of opposite counsel to be true, that ordinarily appellant’s remedy would have been by supplemental bill, the rule has no application, because the bill was filed after the former case had been decided and an appeal had been taken therein. There was then no ¡lending case in the chancery court, and it did not hare jurisdiction to grant an injunction. 2. Although it may be the correct rule, in cases where the object is to prevent ordinary waste or trespass, to…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
The appellant exhibited his bill against the appellees, alleging that he is the real owner of the land therein described and that the appellees are in possession thereof, claiming title adversely; that he had theretofore proceeded in equity against appellees for a cancellation of their title, and, on final hearing, the court had decreed the title of appellees to be valid, and from that decree he had prosecuted an appeal to the supreme court, which was then pending and undetermined; that the principal value of the land consisted of the timber, growing thereon, which the appellees were about to…
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