Eure v. Tayler
Mississippi Supreme Court
JEn Banc. Appeal from chancery court, Hinds county. Hon. Y. J. Stricker, Chancellor. Proceeding by O. B. Taylor and others, receivers, against W. R. Eure and others to require them to pay over certain funds. On failure of defendant named to comply with such order, he was by interlocutory order adjudged in contempt of court, and from such order he appeals. Oh motion to dismiss appeal.
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JEn Banc. Appeal from chancery court, Hinds county. Hon. Y. J. Stricker, Chancellor. Proceeding by O. B. Taylor and others, receivers, against W. R. Eure and others to require them to pay over certain funds. On failure of defendant named to comply with such order, he was by interlocutory order adjudged in contempt of court, and from such order he appeals. Oh motion to dismiss appeal. It is manifest that the chancellor did not .find defendant guilty of a criminal contempt, but only of a civil contempt, in that the decree only requires that the parties shall pay over the money and comply with…
1Opinion of the CourtSykes, J.
In the case of Stokes V. Robertson, State Revenue Agent, for the Use of the State of Mississippi, v. Aetna Insurance Co. et al., pending in the chancery court ofi Hinds county, the chancellor, on February 14, 1921, entered a decree appointing receivers, and among other things, ordered this appellant, Eure, and others who are defendants in the case, to file with the receivers- an itemized list of all choses in action, accounts, goods, and effects, and all other assets *160in their hands belonging to any of the defendant insurance companies, and to turn over this list and this property to the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Nutt v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1909
3Cited by4 opinions
- Brownson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1929
- In Re EskayCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1941
- Aetna Ins. v. RobertsonMississippi Supreme Court · 1922
- Bond v. AndersonMississippi Supreme Court · 1948