State Ex Rel. Knox v. Edward Hines Lumber Co.

The state of Mississippi, on relation of its attorney-general, instituted suit in the chancery court of the First district of Hinds county against the Edward Hines Lumber Company, the Wyatt Lumber Company, the Champion Lumber Company, the Wolf Eiver Lumber Company, the Lumbermen’s Mills Company, Edward Hines Yellow Pine Trustees, and Edward Hines, L. L. Barth, and C. F. Wiehe, individually, and as trustees under a certain declaration of trust, wherein they are styled “Edward Hines Yellow Pine Trustees,” all alleged to be nonresidents of the state of Mississippi, and also eleven resident…