Dodwell v. Reeves
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Carroll county. Hon. James F. McCool, Chancellor. Suit by J. M. Dodwell and others against J. A. Reeves, receiver for the Merchants’ & Farmers’ Bank of Yaiden. The prayer of the petition that the court instructed defendant receiver to prosecute an appeal to ■ the supreme court from a decree of the chancellor vacating an assignment for creditors made by the bank, was denied, but the court granted an appeal to petitioners.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Carroll county. Hon. James F. McCool, Chancellor. Suit by J. M. Dodwell and others against J. A. Reeves, receiver for the Merchants’ & Farmers’ Bank of Yaiden. The prayer of the petition that the court instructed defendant receiver to prosecute an appeal to ■ the supreme court from a decree of the chancellor vacating an assignment for creditors made by the bank, was denied, but the court granted an appeal to petitioners. On February 21, 1913, the Merchants’ & Farmers’ Bank of Vaiden, acting through its board of directors, made a general assignment, without…
1Opinion of the CourtCook, P. J.
Many of the contentions of appellee have been disposed of by the judgment heretofore rendered in this case overruling their' motion to dismiss this appeal. We necessarily held in the disposal of that motion that appellants had an appealable interest, and that the decree of the chancery court, from which this appeal was taken, is a final decree.
In the consideration of the merits, we will notice the main, if not the sole, question presented by the record —i. e., was the trial court right in holding that' the general assignment made by the Merchants’ &, Farmers’ Bank, of Vaiden, invalid?
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- Descombes v. WoodSupreme Court of Missouri · 1886
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