Mississippi Bank v. Kelly ex rel. Kelly

WALKER, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

This is an appeal from the chancery court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, wherein the chancellor held the appellant in contempt and ordered it to pay unto the appellees the sum of $8,150.00 to purge itself of said contempt. From this order the appellant perfected an appeal to this Court and assigns as error, inter alia, the following:

The Mississippi Bank was never made a party to the court decree under which it was found to be in contempt of court.

On May 24, 1974 Steve Randall Kelly, Sr. petitioned the chancery court for a decree…