Morrimac Veneer Co. v. McCalip
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Lawrence county. Hon. A. E. Weather,sby, Judge. Suit by Floyd. McCalip against the Morrimac Veneer Company. Judgment in favor of the plaintiff, and the defendant appeals. We do not contend that tbe suit at bar was wrongfully brought in the circuit court of Lawrence county. The statute of 1918, chapter 149, authorized its institution in that court. That court had jurisdiction of the subject-matter of the suit and of the parties to it.
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Appeal from circuit court of Lawrence county. Hon. A. E. Weather,sby, Judge. Suit by Floyd. McCalip against the Morrimac Veneer Company. Judgment in favor of the plaintiff, and the defendant appeals. We do not contend that tbe suit at bar was wrongfully brought in the circuit court of Lawrence county. The statute of 1918, chapter 149, authorized its institution in that court. That court had jurisdiction of the subject-matter of the suit and of the parties to it. The venue of the suit was proper under the statute, Laws of Mississippi 1918, ch. 149, p. 154. What we contend is that the very same…
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
The appellee ivas plaintiff below, and sued the appellant for damages for a breach of contract involving the sale of certain timber to the appellant by the appellee. The contract of sale provided for a sale of one million feet, more or less, of certain gum, maple, beach, sycamore, and poplar timber upon certain described lands, at the sum of twenty-eight dollars per thousand feet when cut and loaded on cars at Monticello, Miss., payment to be made twice each month, on the 1st and loth, with the provision that the appellant should retain four dollars and forty cents per thousand feet to pay…
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