Eckert v. Searcy
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tlie chancery court of Hinds county. Hon. O. B. Taylor, Chancellor. Bill hy Mrs. K. Eckert against R. J. Searcy and another. Bill dismissed and plaintiff appeals. The facts are fulfy stated in the opinion of the court..
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Appeal from tlie chancery court of Hinds county. Hon. O. B. Taylor, Chancellor. Bill hy Mrs. K. Eckert against R. J. Searcy and another. Bill dismissed and plaintiff appeals. The facts are fulfy stated in the opinion of the court.. Searcy held three notes of Lewis’ for one hundred dollars each, one of which was then due in a few days, to secure the payment of ninety-eight dollars and seventy cents, the three notes being secured hy retained title to one thousand dollars worth of hotel fixtures. Thereupon, without any authority to do so, and without notifying the pledgor to redeem, and without…
1Opinion of the CourtHolden, J.
From a decree of the chancery court of the First district of Hinds county, dismissing the bill of complaint filed by the appellant against the appellee, the appellant, Mrs. Eckert, appeals here.
The case is, briefy, this: On May 4, 1914, the appellant, Mrs. K. Eckert sold to J. M. Lewis, one of the appellees herein, a certain lot of household goods and furniture. The consideration of the sale was three hundred dollars in cash and the execution of eight promissory notes by the said J. M. Lewis to the said Mrs. K. Eckert for one hundred dollars each, the first of which was due and payable thirty…
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