Robinett v. Starling
Mississippi Supreme Court
!From the circuit court of Washington county. Hon. R. W. Williamson, Judge. The opinion states the case. The question here involved has been settled in appellant’s favor. Harris v. Hutcheson, 65 Miss., 9. If appellant had instituted this suit upon the note in question, the same should have been registered.
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!From the circuit court of Washington county. Hon. R. W. Williamson, Judge. The opinion states the case. The question here involved has been settled in appellant’s favor. Harris v. Hutcheson, 65 Miss., 9. If appellant had instituted this suit upon the note in question, the same should have been registered. In no sense was'appellant a creditor of appellee until her recovery of the judgment against the Delta Insurance Company, and it is questionable whether she was such even then. Therefore she was not a creditor until December, 1893, at which time a “ claim ” against the estate was barred. The…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
This case was tried, on an agreed statement of facts, by the' judge, trial by jury having been waived by the parties. The facts are that appellant, on the eleventh day of December, 1893, recovered a judgment for eleven hundred and eighty dollars against the Delta Insurance Company, on which an execution has been issued and returned nulla tona. The appellee’s intestate, W. L. Jones, was a subscriber for ten shares of the stock of the company of the par value of one hundred dollars per share. He paid in cash one hundred and fifty dollars and executed his note to the company for eight hundred…
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