Harrison v. Illinois Central R. R.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Scott County sustaining a plea in abatement and dismissing the suit of the appellants upon the ground that a suit previously filed by the appellants as. plaintiffs was pending in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County involving the appellee, Illinois Central Railroad Company, as defendant, and involving the same plaintiffs and the same cause of action.

Prior to the hearing of the plea in abatement, the appellants undertook to enter a non-suit in vacation in the Hinds County suit, and it is their contention that…