Horne v. Burress

RODGERS, Justice:

This is an appeal from a final decree of the Chancery Court of Prentiss County, Mississippi, sustaining a general demurrer to an amended bill in which the appellant, J. C. Horne, Jr., sought discovery, and an accounting against R. H. Burress and Milton Waters, and upon the failure of the appellant to plead over, his original bill was dismissed. The chancellor held that the chancery court did not have jurisdiction because appellant had an adequate remedy at law, namely: the right to sue at law for unlawful conversion of property. We are of the opinion that the chancery court…