Kimball, Raymond & Co. v. Alcorn & Fisher
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from chancery court of Hinds county, first district. Cabaniss, Chancellor. Writ of error to circuit court, Hinds county. Brown, J. These two cases were submitted together. The bill of Kimball, Raymond & Co., exhibited in the chancery court of Hinds county, was dismissed on final hearing, on bill and answer, and they appealed, and the mandamus they prayed was granted by the circuit court of Hinds, and James Lynch,.secretary of state, sued out a writ of error.
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Appeal from chancery court of Hinds county, first district. Cabaniss, Chancellor. Writ of error to circuit court, Hinds county. Brown, J. These two cases were submitted together. The bill of Kimball, Raymond & Co., exhibited in the chancery court of Hinds county, was dismissed on final hearing, on bill and answer, and they appealed, and the mandamus they prayed was granted by the circuit court of Hinds, and James Lynch,.secretary of state, sued out a writ of error. The two cases involved substantially the same question, and were considered and decided by the court as one case. The facts of…
1Opinion of the Court
SlMBALL, J.:
These two cases were argued in vacation, on the agreement, as stated by counsel, that the parties would immediately conform to whatever judgment the court might then declare, that it would pronounce at this term.
Counsel waived any points that might arise on the pleadings, and addressed themselves exclusively to the main question. On account of the important public interest connected with the litigation, the pressing necessity that the printing of the new Code, the pamphlet acts of the legislature, and other public matter should not be further delayed, the court considered the…
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