State v. Woodruff

This suit was begun by a bill filed in the chancery court of Hinds county on August 18, 1888. On February 21, 1931, forty-three years thereafter, an interlocutory decree was rendered and an appeal was allowed to settle the principles of the case. At the March, 1899 term, this court, in response to a similar appeal in this case, delivered an opinion, reported in Woodruff v. State, 77 Miss. 68, 25 So. 483, which substantially covered the merits so far as the law is concerned, and it seems to us that the appeal now allowed, thirty-two years thereafter, is for a construction by this court as now…