Ford v. Commercial Securities Co.

These two consolidated cases involve the question of whether the trial court was correct in sustaining appellee’s motions to strike and its demurrers to appellant’s petitions for leave to file a bill of review. For reasons subsequently stated, we think that this action was erroneous.

In August 1952, appellee, Commercial Securities Company, Inc., filed a bill of complaint in the Chancery Court of Warren County against appellant, Jack E. Ford, seeking to recover from him the balance due on twenty-eight conditional sale contracts which were assigned to appellee with recourse by Mississippi Motor…