Ganong v. Town of Jonestown
Mississippi Supreme Court
Motion in supreme court by W. L. Ganong for a rule upon E. M. Wise et al., officers of the town of Jones-town, to show cause why an attachment for contempt should not issue against them. A full statement of facts will be found in the opinion of the court. No brief of either counsel is found in the record.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
At a former term of this court the judgment of the court below herein was reversed, and such judgment rendered as ought to have been rendered by the court below. This judgment commanded that a writ of mandamus should issue, directed to the board of mayor and aldermen of the town of Jonestown, commanding said board that it forthwith pay over to the plaintiff herein, W. L. Ganong, the sum of seventeen hundred and seventy dollars and seventy cents, with interest at six per cent, per annum from said date on thirteen hundred and forty-six dollars and forty-five cents of said sum, and in default…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Mobile & Ohio Railroad v. WatlyMississippi Supreme Court · 1891
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