State v. Greenville Stone & Gravel Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
■ Appeal from Chicot Chancery Court; Z. T. Wood, Chancellor; STATEMENT. BY THE COURT. This suit was instituted by the State, through the Attorney General and specially employed counsel, against the Greenville Stone & Gravel Company and the Green-ville Sand & Gravel Company, hereinafter designated as the companies, to recover for sand and gravel alleged to have been taken by the companies from the bars and beds of the Mississippi River.
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■ Appeal from Chicot Chancery Court; Z. T. Wood, Chancellor; STATEMENT. BY THE COURT. This suit was instituted by the State, through the Attorney General and specially employed counsel, against the Greenville Stone & Gravel Company and the Green-ville Sand & Gravel Company, hereinafter designated as the companies, to recover for sand and gravel alleged to have been taken by the companies from the bars and beds of the Mississippi River. The complaint set tup that the companies were foreign . corporations, and were in fact hut one corporation, being owned and controlled by the same persons…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
(alfter stating the facts.) The orders overruling the demurrers of the companies to the complaint of the State are not final orders from which an appeal will lie.
Section 1188 of Kirby’s Digest provides: “The Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction over the final orders, judgments and determinations of all inferior courts of the State, in the following eases and no others:
“First. In a judgment in an action commenced in the inferior .courts, and, upon the appeal from such judgment, to review any intermediate order involving the merits and necessarily affecting the judgment.
“Second. In…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Davie v. DavieSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1889
- Adams v. PrimmerSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1912
- Moody v. Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern RailroadSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1907
- Atkins v. GrahamSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1911
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- Arkansas State Board of Architects v. LarsenSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1956
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- Portis v. Board of Public Utilities, LepantoSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1948
- Wright v. City of Little RockSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1968
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