Hall v. Merchants & Farmers Bank

This motion raises the issue of whether the appeal is premature. On June 11,1954, appellant M. H. Hall filed with the Chancery Clerk of Lauderdale County a statement of intention to perpetuate the testimony of certain witnesses for purposes of a proposed suit for damages against appellee, Merchants and Farmers Bank of Meridian. Code of 1942, Secs. 1714-1724. This statement requested that process be served on the named witnesses for a hearing before a Commissioner on June 23, 1954. By agreement of the parties on that date, the matter was passed until June 26, and at that time the *815appointed…