Shackleford v. Mississippi Central Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Madison County. Hon. W. B. CuNNING-ham, Judge. Judgments were rendered in the court below and writs of ■error prosecuted to this court. The Mississippi Central Eail-road consolidated with the New Orleans, St. Louis & Chicago Eailroad Company.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Madison County. Hon. W. B. CuNNING-ham, Judge. Judgments were rendered in the court below and writs of ■error prosecuted to this court. The Mississippi Central Eail-road consolidated with the New Orleans, St. Louis & Chicago Eailroad Company. A scire facias was issued to revive the ••actions against the consolidated company, and the case came before the court on a motion to quash the scire facias. [The arguments were oral; no briefs found in the record.]
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
Plaintiffs (in each case) had judgment against them and ■prosecuted writ of error to this court, 'which pronounced the judgments erroneous. Whereupon counsel for plaintiffs in error moved for scire facias to bring in the New Orleans, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad Company, which, it was suggested, had been formed by consolidation of the defendant in error and •another railroad company since the rendition of the judgments in the circuit court, to receive judgment in this court on ■reversal of said judgments.
*160The New Orleans, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad Company-appeared to the scire facias and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Torry v. RobertsonCourt of Appeals of Mississippi · 1852
3Cited by4 opinions
- Evans v. Interstate Rapid Transit Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1891
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. ConeSupreme Court of Florida · 1907
- Kelley v. Mississippi Central R.United States Circuit Court · 1880
- Calvert, Waco & Brazos Valley Railway Co. v. DriskillCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1903