Orr v. Jackson Jitney Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Hinds county. Hon. O. B. Taylor, Chancellor. Suit by H. S. Orr against the Jackson Jitney Car Company and another wherein one Dumford intervened. From the judgment rendered, Orr and Dumford appeal.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Hinds county. Hon. O. B. Taylor, Chancellor. Suit by H. S. Orr against the Jackson Jitney Car Company and another wherein one Dumford intervened. From the judgment rendered, Orr and Dumford appeal. The Jackson Jitney Car Company was a corporation chartered by the state, the purposes specified in its charter being “to own and operate automobiles and motorcars for hire, and to conduct a general automobile and taxicab business for the carriage of passengers for hire in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, and territory adjacent thereto.” This corporation purchased…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The Jackson Jitney Car Company was engaged in two separate and distinct lines of business: First, operating automobiles and taxicabs for the carriage of passengers for hire in the city of Jackson and vicinity; and, second, trading in automobile supplies. The Jitney bus here in controversy was acquired and used in its business of operating automobiles for hire, and consequently does not come within the provisions of section 4784 of the Code, so that the lien of Decell, the judgment creditor, should have been postponed to that of appellant.
Dumford, the mechanic, has no lien for the charges in…
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