Bryant v. Lovitt

*740On July 2,1955, Forman Lovitt and David Lovitt, residents and citizens of Forrest County, Mississippi, doing business as partners in said county, filed a declaration in the county court of that county against Edward Bryant, seeking to recover a personal judgment against Bryant for the value of certain merchandise the Lovitts claim to have sold Bryant and for which he had not paid. The declaration stated that Bryant was “an adult resident citizen of Mississippi on whom process of this court may be served.” As a matter of fact Bryant was a resident citizen and householder of Jones County,…