Nations v. Lovejoy
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court, second district, of Yalobusha county. Hon. W. A. Bele^ Special Judge. Mrs. Lovejoy, the appellee, was the plaintiff in the court below; the appellant, Nations, was defendant there. The facts upon which the decision -is based are stated in the opinion of the court.
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From the circuit court, second district, of Yalobusha county. Hon. W. A. Bele^ Special Judge. Mrs. Lovejoy, the appellee, was the plaintiff in the court below; the appellant, Nations, was defendant there. The facts upon which the decision -is based are stated in the opinion of the court. The statute of lSLS (Laws 18J3, page 166, sec. 4), dividing the county into two chancery and circuit court districts, makes the two districts, as far as the circuit and chancery courts are concerned, as separate and distinct as two counties. However, it does not affect the jurisdiction of a justice of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Woods, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit was begun by appellee against the appellant before a justice of the peace in justice district two in Yalobusha county, and judgment rendered in favor of appellant, from which judgment appellee took her appeal to the circuit court of the second circuit and chancery court district of that county. From a judgment rendered against him in the said circuit court of said second judicial district of said county, appellant brings the present appeal to this court.
The appellant was properly sued before the justice of the peace in the second…
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