Metcalfe v. Merchants & Planters' Bank
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the chancery court of Washington county. Hon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Metcalfe and others, appellants, were complainants in the court below, and the Merchants and Planters’ bank of Green-ville and others, appellees, were defendants there.
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Prom the chancery court of Washington county. Hon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Metcalfe and others, appellants, were complainants in the court below, and the Merchants and Planters’ bank of Green-ville and others, appellees, were defendants there. From an interlocutory decree requiring complainants to determine by election the character of their pleading, whether an original bill or a cross-petition under Code 1892, ch. 8, and from a further decree sustaining defendants’ demurrer to their petition, the complainants appealed to the supreme court. The Merchants and Planters’ bank, being financially…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
The complaint of appellants in the court below is presented' in two aspects, and is filed by depositors, holders of exchange, and one stockholder of appellee bank, against the bank, its officers, directors, guarantors, sureties, assignee-receiver, and certain public officials; it seeks a variety of relief against a variety of separate independent acts of commission and omission, styles itself “a cross-petition or bill of complaint,” and asks the court to treat it “as a cross-petition or bill of complaint as their equities may require,” and “that this cross-petition be treated as a…
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