Louis Werner Sawmill Co. v. Sheffield
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of, second district, Coahoma county. Hon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Sheffield, the appellee, was complainant in the court below; the Louis Werner Sawmill Company, the appellant, and the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, were defendants there. From a decree in favor of complainant, defendant Louis Werner Sawmill Company appealed to the supreme court.
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From the chancery court of, second district, Coahoma county. Hon. Percy Bell, Chancellor. Sheffield, the appellee, was complainant in the court below; the Louis Werner Sawmill Company, the appellant, and the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, were defendants there. From a decree in favor of complainant, defendant Louis Werner Sawmill Company appealed to the supreme court. The suit was an attachment in chancery by Sheffield, who claimed to be a creditor of the sawmill company, a nonresident of the state, and the bill charges that the railroad company, the resident defendant, had…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, J.
The Louis Werner Sawmill Company is conceded to be a nonresident of this state. The jurisdiction of the chancery court to entertain this suit depended upon the fact that the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company had in its hands effects belonging to the Louis Werner Sawmill Company at the time the writ of attachment was served on it. The answers had denied that the railroad company had any effects of the Louis Werner Sawmill Company in its possession at the time the writ of attachment was served on it,- and the burden rested on Sheffield to establish this fact. The proof in the case…
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