Gregory v. Williams

On September 25, 1943, J.T. Williams Company, a partnership, entered into a written contract with Mid-South Paving Company, a partnership, and Trinidad Asphalt Manufacturing Company, a corporation, under which Williams leased to the other parties certain machinery and equipment constituting a plant for the manufacture of asphalt.

On November 29, 1944, Williams filed a suit in the Chancery Court of Hinds County, Mississippi, against the lessees to recover from them the following items under that contract:

$6,013.48, damage caused by the alleged neglect and misuse of the equipment by the…