Crawford v. Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
From: tlie chancery court of, second district, Perry county. HoN. StoNE Dbavours, Judge. Hightower Crawford and fifty-six other persons, appellants, were complainants in the court below; the railroad company and another, appellees, were defendants there. Prom a decree in defendants’ favor dissolving an injunction, the complainants appealed to the supreme court.
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From: tlie chancery court of, second district, Perry county. HoN. StoNE Dbavours, Judge. Hightower Crawford and fifty-six other persons, appellants, were complainants in the court below; the railroad company and another, appellees, were defendants there. Prom a decree in defendants’ favor dissolving an injunction, the complainants appealed to the supreme court. The bill alleges that the city of Hattiesburg is situated on the line of the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad, and is in the center of a large territory; that the towns of Ellisville and Laurel lie northeast of Hattiesburg, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, O. J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
There was no answer denying tbe fraud charged in tbe bill. Tbe chancellor dissolved tbe injunction upon the theory, manifestly, that equity had no jurisdiction to try tbe case made by *717the bill. The equitable jurisdiction to grant the relief prayed for in the bill, on the sole ground that it would prevent multiplicity of suits, all the different notes depending upon “a common state of facts and a common principle of law,” is clearly established by Pollock v. Okolona Savings Institution, 61 Miss., at page 296, and Railroad Co. v. Garrison, 81…
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