Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad v. Elmore

On Application eor Rehearing.

Miller, J.

The earnestness of the argument for a rehearing in this case has prompted us to a careful re-examination and, if our *1243conclusions prove disappointing to the defendants, we trust they will be accepted as the result of a diligent effort on our part to give to the controversy, previous phases of which have been before us, our best attention.

"When defendants, sued for land, hold by different titles, they can not, as a general rule, be joined because their defences,, necessarily, are different. In this case the defendants exhibit no title whatever, common or…