State ex rel. McClurg v. Mississippi Cotton Oil Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Erom the circuit court of first district, Hinds county. Hon. Robert Powell, Judge. The state, on the relation of the attorney-general, appellant, was the plaintiff in the court below ; the Mississippi Cotton Oil Company and fifteen other cotton oil companies, appellees, were defendants there.
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Erom the circuit court of first district, Hinds county. Hon. Robert Powell, Judge. The state, on the relation of the attorney-general, appellant, was the plaintiff in the court below ; the Mississippi Cotton Oil Company and fifteen other cotton oil companies, appellees, were defendants there. The suit was begun in the circuit court of the first district of Hinds county on an information in the nature of a quo war-ranto by the attorney-general against the defendants, domiciled in various counties of the state, each doing business in the county of its domicile — three of them being domiciled in…
1Opinion of the Court
CÁlhoon, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The act of 1900, p. 125, against trusts and combines, is silent as to venue. That was, perhaps, not thought of. Code, § 650, relates to venue in the circuit courts in actions generally, just as § 510 does for chancery courts. Sections 652, 653, and 654 regulate venue in circuit courts as to certain corporations, etc. Venue in suits before justices of the peace is carefully regulated. Section 3097 regulates it in partition proceedings; §3709, in replevin; §4248, in suits against the state. Section 2588 (repealed in 1900) prescribed the venue in…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Archibald v. Miss. & Tenn. R. R.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1889
- Nugent v. PowellMississippi Supreme Court · 1885
- J. F. Baum & Co. v. BurnsMississippi Supreme Court · 1888
- Pate v. TaylorMississippi Supreme Court · 1888