Vicksburg Waterworks Co. v. Mayor of Vicksburg
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi. In certain suits, No. 41, and ancillary proceedings thereto, No. 79, of the docket of the Circuit Court, entitled Vicksburg Waterworks Company v. Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Vicksburg, theretofore brought and decided, the last branch of the same being now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States, the Vicksburg Waterworks Company, complainant, filed a so-called motion…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi. In certain suits, No. 41, and ancillary proceedings thereto, No. 79, of the docket of the Circuit Court, entitled Vicksburg Waterworks Company v. Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Vicksburg, theretofore brought and decided, the last branch of the same being now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States, the Vicksburg Waterworks Company, complainant, filed a so-called motion making new and additional parties defendant, praying for a. perpetual injunction and for a rule upon such defendants to…
1Opinion of the Court
After stating the case as above, the opinion of the court was delivered by
PARDEE, Circuit Judge.
The appellees move to dismiss this appeal, because neither of the decrees above mentioned is final.' At the bar the appellant abandoned the appeal so far as the contempt proceedings are concerned, but insists on the errors assigned as to the first-mentioned decree. Reaving out of consideration the charge of contempt for violation of former decrees, and treating the so-called motion as a bill in equity, the object was to have the respondents made parties defendant in the bills already decreed upon,…
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