Wessinger v. Mausur & Tibbetts Implement Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Leflore county. Hon. R. W. Williamson, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion. On February 19, 1892, before the case was at issue, either upon the question of attachment or upon the merits, the legislature passed an act dividing Coahoma county into two judicial districts.
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From the circuit court of Leflore county. Hon. R. W. Williamson, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion. On February 19, 1892, before the case was at issue, either upon the question of attachment or upon the merits, the legislature passed an act dividing Coahoma county into two judicial districts. By the provisions of section 14 of that act, which provided that residents of the second district should have the' right in pending suits, but not attachment suits, to have the same transferred for trial to the second judicial district of Coa-homa county, the entire attachment proceeding was…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, C. J.
The counsel for the appellant advances three propositions *68for our consideration, in his argument for a reversal. We shall consider them in the order made and argued by counsel.
The circuit court of Leflore county had no jurisdiction to hear and determine the cause, and this contention rests upon two grounds, viz., that the transfer of the case from the first to the second judicial district of Coahoma county was without authority of law, and, next, that the transfer, by change of venue, of the cause from the second district of Coahoma county to the county of Leflore was an attempt to confer…
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