Barrett v. Carter Bros. & Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tlie chaucery court of Lee county. -Hon. Baxter McFarland, Chancellor. Carter Bros. & Co. exhibited this bill in the chancery court of Lee county, against G-. "W". Barrett, a citizen of Prentiss county, John Dulaney and George Sloan, citizens of Lee county, and against G. B. Oliver, a citizen of the state of Texas.
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From tlie chaucery court of Lee county. -Hon. Baxter McFarland, Chancellor. Carter Bros. & Co. exhibited this bill in the chancery court of Lee county, against G-. "W". Barrett, a citizen of Prentiss county, John Dulaney and George Sloan, citizens of Lee county, and against G. B. Oliver, a citizen of the state of Texas. The bill alleges that Barrett, prior to January,.1890, was a merchant, and, as such, became indebted to complainants and others, whose debts complainants have purchased; that, in January, 1890, Barrett, being thus indebted and insolvent, made a fraudulent sale of his stock of…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
The bill having been dismissed as to the defendants, Sloan and Dulaney, they have no longer any interest in the litigation, and their motion to join in the appeal must be denied.
If there would otherwise have been merit in the objection taken to the jurisdiction of the court by the appellant, Barrett, it cannot now avail, for, by § 147 of the constitution, it is declared that “no judgment or decree in any chancery or circuit court, rendered in a civil cause, shall be reversed or annulled on the ground of want of jurisdiction to render said judgment or decree, from any error or mistake as to…
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