Brashier v. J. C. O'Connor & Sons

Appellant, Brashier, filed his bill in the chancery court of Clarke county against the appellee J. C. O’Connor & Sonsi a foreign corporation, and Eiarl Hurst, L. O'. Hurst, and Maurice Hurst, nonresidents of the state, and the Mississippi State Highway Commission. On motion of defendants the canse was dismissed upon the ground that the territorial jurisdiction was in the chancery court of Wayne county and not in the chancery court of Clarke; from which decree the appellant prosecutes this appeal.

The bill alleged that J. C. 0;’Connor & Sons had made a contract with the highway commission for…