Hunt v. Potter
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Hinds County. Hon. E. G. Peyton, Chancellor. This appeal was taken from an order overruling a demurrer to a petition setting forth the facts hereafter stated in the opinion of the court. The Chancery Court has no jurisdiction of this case. Sect. 976 of the Code of 1871 does not confer this jurisdiction. It must be construed in connection with sect. 1142 and other provisions of chap. 9 of the Code.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Hinds County. Hon. E. G. Peyton, Chancellor. This appeal was taken from an order overruling a demurrer to a petition setting forth the facts hereafter stated in the opinion of the court. The Chancery Court has no jurisdiction of this case. Sect. 976 of the Code of 1871 does not confer this jurisdiction. It must be construed in connection with sect. 1142 and other provisions of chap. 9 of the Code. Sect. 976 does not pretend to prescribe specially the precise jurisdiction or particular remedies, but only in general terms enumerates the heads of jurisdiction,…
1Opinion of the CourtChalmers, C. J.
Greorge L. Potter, an attorney-at-law, was employed by S. *103F. Hunt to defend a suit for $150,000, brought by the United States government against the latter and the sureties on his official bond as internal revenue collector. Hunt died pending the litigation, and Potter thereafter continued his attention to the case without objection from the personal representatives of the estate. There was no agreement as to the fee to be paid, and, Potter being now dead, this bill is filed by his administrator against the executrix of Hunt, in the Chancery Court of Hinds County, in Avhich the estate of Hunt…
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