Woodson v. Hopkins
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the chancery court of Warren county. Hon. William P. S. Venteess, Chancellor. Hopkins, appellant, was complainant, and Woodson, appellee, defendant in the court below. Prom a decree in complainant’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Prom the chancery court of Warren county. Hon. William P. S. Venteess, Chancellor. Hopkins, appellant, was complainant, and Woodson, appellee, defendant in the court below. Prom a decree in complainant’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Appellant’s contention in this case is that the bill seeks to sustain appellee in carrying oil an illegal business against the laws and public policy of the state, and that, this being true, he has no standing in equity under the rule, that he does not come into equity with clean hands.…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, C. J.
The case made by the record is briefly this: That a certain Dr. Hopkins,’ of Atlanta, Ga., was the owner of a number of loan agencies in various states; a number in Memphis, Tenn., and a number in Vicksburg, Miss. They were conducted under assumed names: Oobb & Company, Shaw & Company, Mathis & Company, etc. Shaw & Company was the assumed name given to the office of Hopkins conducted by S. T. Woodson, as agent, in Vicksburg. The business consisted in loaning money in small sums to necessitous and ignorant people, mostly negroes; and this name of Shaw & Company was taken, evidently, for the…
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