Pease & Dwyer Co. v. Somers Planting Co.

Appellee, Somers Planting Company, sued out, in the chancery court of Coahoma county, a foreign attachment against appellant, Pease & Dwyer Company, for damages suffered by appellee in the death of two of its mules, alleged to have been caused by unsound hay fed to them, which hay was purchased by J. E. Somers & Co. from appellant, and resold by the former to appellee. The attachment was sued out under section 536, Code of 1906 (Hemingway’s Code, section 293). Appellant was a non-resident of the state, residing in Memphis, in the State of Tennessee, and engaged in the sale of stock…