Mid-South Paving Co. v. State Highway Commission

ON MOTION TO DISMISS APPEAL.

On September 23, 1944, appellants filed their bill in attachment in chancery against the Trinidad Asphalt Mfg. Co., of Missouri as the principal defendant and against the Mississippi State Highway Commission as a defendant alleged to be indebted to its codefendant. Sections 2729 et seq., Code 1942. On September 30, 1944, the Highway Commission moved to quash the process so far as it was concerned and for its discharge and dismissal on the ground that the proceeding was in effect an attachment against the Commission, and that the statutes have not permitted such a…