Webb Sumner Oil Mill v. Southern Coal Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Apbeal from chancery court of Tallahatchie county. Hon. (1. E. Williams, Chancellor. Suit by the Webb Sumner Oil Mill against the Southern Coal Company. From a decree dismissing the bill of complaint, the complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
This is an attachment in chancery in Avhich the appellant, a domestic corporation, is the complainant, and the appellee, a foreign corporation, is the defendant. The appellee sought by the procedure appropriate for so doing to remove the cause to the federal court, but ivas not permitted by the court below so to do. The appellee then answered the bill of complaint, and the cause proceeded to trial, which resulted in a decree dismissing the bill of complaint, from which the complainant has appealed to this court.
*128After the record reached this court the appellee, as it liad the right to do,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Sivley v. SivleyMississippi Supreme Court · 1909
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