Johnson v. Jones
Mississippi Supreme Court
Ebom the circuit court of, second district, Panola county. Hon. Perrin H. Lowrey, Judge. Jones, appellee, was plaintiff and Mrs. Johnson, appellant, was defendant in the court below. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The peremptory instruction asked by appellant should have been sustained.
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Ebom the circuit court of, second district, Panola county. Hon. Perrin H. Lowrey, Judge. Jones, appellee, was plaintiff and Mrs. Johnson, appellant, was defendant in the court below. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. The peremptory instruction asked by appellant should have been sustained. The burden of proof was upon the plaintiff to show what items of the account were furnished for the plantation and what for the house, and upon being interrogated as to each item he replied as to each that he…
1Opinion of the CourtPrice, J.
Jones was a merchant doing a general mercantile business in the town of Courtland. Mrs. Emma O. Johnson was the wife of H. M. Johnson, who managed and cultivated his wife’s plantation during the year 1890, when the account sued on was made by H. M. Johnson with Jones for plantation and family supplies. There was no contract between Johnson and wife in evidence as to the farming operations. The husband, with the wife’s means, had carried on her farming operations for a period of several years; and Jones had for several years sold family and plantation supplies, and charged them on his books to…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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