T. H. & J. M. Allen & Co. v. Lenoir
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal and Cross-appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Bolivar County. Hon. E. Stafford, Chancellor. T. H. & J. M. Allen & Co., the complainants in the court below, filed their bill iu the Chancery Court of Bolivar County, on the 16th of December, against Thomas B. Lenoir and Emma S. Lenoir, his wife.
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Appeal and Cross-appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Bolivar County. Hon. E. Stafford, Chancellor. T. H. & J. M. Allen & Co., the complainants in the court below, filed their bill iu the Chancery Court of Bolivar County, on the 16th of December, against Thomas B. Lenoir and Emma S. Lenoir, his wife. The bill alleged that on the 27th of January, 1866, Thomas B. Lenoir gave his promissory note to the complainants, for $9,275, due ten months after date; and on the 25th of January, 1866, gave another promissory note to the complainants, for $3,000, due nine months after date ; that the said notes…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
The suit being against husband and wife to subject the wife’s land to the mortgage and both husband and wife being summoned, the husband pleaded that he had been discharged in bankruptcy, and the wife petitioned to be allowed to defend the suit separately from her husband, and, having obtained an order to do so, defended separately. The complainants *330then dismissed their bill as to the husband, and afterwards the wife moved the court to discontinue the suit as to her, because it had been discontinued as to her husband. This motion was denied; and we think there was no error in this. There was…
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