Johnson v. Johnson

Ethridge, J.,

delivered a dissenting opinion.

I am compelled to dissent from the holding of the majority in this case, which is too important to pass by unnoticed, or to silently concur in the result of the affirmance.

This is an appeal by the sureties on the bond of Bankston Johnson, arrested on a writ of ne exeat república, issued on the fiat of the judge of the Chancery Court of DeSoto County, Mississippi.

The appellee, Mrs. Ora Lee Johnson, was complainant in the suit against Bankston Johnson for a divorce dissolving their marriage, and for the support of herself and two minor children. The…