Hentz v. Delta Bank
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. Edward F. Noel, Special Chancellor. The Delta Bank, the appellee, was the complainant in the court below; appellant, Henry Hentz & Co. et al., were .defendants there.
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From the chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. Edward F. Noel, Special Chancellor. The Delta Bank, the appellee, was the complainant in the court below; appellant, Henry Hentz & Co. et al., were .defendants there. The complainant’s bill charges that one Blake was indebted to the bank; that Blake owned stock in a compress company domiciled at Greenwood, and stock in a Louisiana corporation domiciled in New Orleans; that Blake had pledged to Henry Hentz & Co. this stock for a debt due them by Mm, they having discharged an indebtedness of Blake to a New Orleans bank, and received a transfer of…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, J.
The bill charges, not as clearly as might be wished, but sufficiently, we think, that Hentz & Co. fraudulently combined with Blake to aid him in putting the dividends beyond the reach of appellee, and to aid Blake in defrauding appellee; and that the appellants knew all this when they took the transfer of the stock. We think the bill stated a good ground for relief along this line. It is well settled, of course, in this state that when a bill charges fraud, that is material, and which, if true, entitles to relief, the respondent should answer denying the fraud. He may then demur, if the…
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