Hughston v. Cornish
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Attala County. 1-Ion. R. W. Williamson, Chancellor. The appellant, who obtained judgments before a justice of the peace, on Feb. 26,1881, against one of the appellees, and purchased his land under the executions, filed this bill to cancel his conveyance to his wife, the other appellee.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Attala County. 1-Ion. R. W. Williamson, Chancellor. The appellant, who obtained judgments before a justice of the peace, on Feb. 26,1881, against one of the appellees, and purchased his land under the executions, filed this bill to cancel his conveyance to his wife, the other appellee. Her demurrer was sustained, upon the grounds that the transcripts from the Justice’s Court, certified by the chancery clerk and exhibited with the bill, showed neither summonses for the husband nor valid judgments against him. These transcripts were copies of the justice’s…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
“Every justice of the peace shall keep a well-bound book, styled ‘ a docket,’ in which he shall enter ” all the proceedings before him in every case. Code 1880, § 2193. That is the record of a case required to be made by the justice of the peace; his “ minutes ” to serve as a memorial of his proceedings in cases civil and criminal. It is of this record that the justice is to transmit a copy to the clerk of the Circuit Court, when an appeal is taken from his decision. Code, 1880, §§ 2241, 2353, 2357. It is a certified transcript of this record of the proceedings that is required by § 2211 to…
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