McRae v. Ashland Plantation Co.

The decree here appealed from, rendered by the Chancery Court of Humphreys County, dismissed the bill of complaint of the appellant as to all of the appellees, without prejudice, on the ground that the local resident named therein had been improperly joined as a defendant for the purpose of conferring territorial jurisdiction in that county, and for other reasons hereinafter mentioned.

As purchaser and assignee of certain claims or demands of eleven negro tenants against their landlords, respectively, for alleged usurious interest charges, forfeiture of principal, and failure to fully account…