Smith v. Fairchild

This is an appeal from a decree of the chancery court dismissing the bill of appellants to enjoin the location and opération by appellees of an undertaking and embalming establishment near the southwest corner of the intersection of Main and Seventh Streets in the northern part of the City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Fairchild and Richard, appellees, purchased a property which for many years had been, and was then being, used and occupied as a residence, paying therefor $3,650. Immediately on learning of this and of the intention of appellees to convert the property into a funeral home,…