Thompson v. First National Bank
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of, first district, Hinds county. Hon. Hobert B. Mayes, Chancellor. Thompson, the appellant, suing as trustee in bankruptcy, was the complainant, and the First National Bank, appellee, defendant in the court below. From a decree in defendant’s favor the complainant appealed to the supreme court.
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From the chancery court of, first district, Hinds county. Hon. Hobert B. Mayes, Chancellor. Thompson, the appellant, suing as trustee in bankruptcy, was the complainant, and the First National Bank, appellee, defendant in the court below. From a decree in defendant’s favor the complainant appealed to the supreme court. The opinion sufficiently states the facts. [The case was heretofore in the supreme court, and is reported — Thompson v. First National Bank, 84 Miss., 54.] Was the representative character of Thompson, trustee of the estate of R. S. Barman, bankrupt, put in issue by the…
1Opinion of the Court
*Mayes, S. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case was heard in the chancery court on the pleadings and the evidence. In the course of the trial the bank, the defendant below, offered in evidence the files of the United States district court in the matter of the bankruptcy of B. S. Barman for the purpose of showing that, because of certain defects in that proceeding, the complainant was not in fact trustee of Barman’s estate, his appointment being alleged to be void. The appellant objected to the introduction of those files, for the reason that no plea or answer had been made in the…
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