Hoopes v. Burnett
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the superior court of chancery; Hon. Stephen Cocke, chancellor. This was a bill filed in the superior court of chancery by Burnett and Withers against Hoopes and Purnell, to compel Davis H. Hoopes, one of the parties defendant, to convey to complainants, by a special warranty deed, two thirds of a house and lot, with the improvements thereon, in the town of Port Gibson, which he, Hoopes, as one of complainants’ attorneys, purchased with a judgment for the sum…
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On appeal from the superior court of chancery; Hon. Stephen Cocke, chancellor. This was a bill filed in the superior court of chancery by Burnett and Withers against Hoopes and Purnell, to compel Davis H. Hoopes, one of the parties defendant, to convey to complainants, by a special warranty deed, two thirds of a house and lot, with the improvements thereon, in the town of Port Gibson, which he, Hoopes, as one of complainants’ attorneys, purchased with a judgment for the sum of $1,397.26, obtained by Hoopes and Purnell, as attorneys for Burnett and Withers, against Samuel McComb, on the 14th…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fisher
*430The appellants, as attorneys at law, obtained a judgment for the sum of $1,397.76, in favor of the appellees, in the circuit court of Claiborne county, against one Samuel McComb. Hoopes, one of the appellants, represented McComb to be insolvent ; and by the letter containing this representation desired the appellees to confer upon the attorneys authority to compromise, for the sum of one or two hundred dollars, the judgment with McComb. The appellees rejected this proposition. It is again renewed by Hoopes; and after a correspondence, running through several months, the appellees were…
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