Williams v. Williams
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Warren county. HoN. E. L. BeieN, Judge. Replevin by Mary Williams against Mary A. Williams. From a judgment rendered, defendant appeals. , Tbe facts are fully stated in tbe opinion of tbe court.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Warren county. HoN. E. L. BeieN, Judge. Replevin by Mary Williams against Mary A. Williams. From a judgment rendered, defendant appeals. , Tbe facts are fully stated in tbe opinion of tbe court. Tbe certiorari is a corrective writ by wbicb tbe superior courts exercise a supervisory power over inferior courts and tribunals, and by wbicb their records are brought under review to tbe end that all abuses of power may be corrected, and that they may be held-strictly to the jurisdiction marked out for them and prevented from transcending the powers by law conferred…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
Appellee instituted an action of replevin against appellant in a court of a justice of the peace for the *255recovery of several articles of personal property alleged to be wrongly detained from her. The affidavit upon wbicb the writ was issued was sworn to before the justice of the peace, but was not signed by appellee, and failed to allege either in the aggregate or in detail the value of the property sought to be recovered. The writ was executed by a constable, who, in his return, valued each article separately, the total of which was fifty-eight dollars and fifty cents. When the cause came on…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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