Tishomingo Saving Institution v. Allen
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Lee county. Hon. Baxter McFarland, Chancellor. Allen, West &Bush, the appellees, were complainants in the court below; the appellants, Tishomingo Savings Institution et al., were defendants there.
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From the chancery court of Lee county. Hon. Baxter McFarland, Chancellor. Allen, West &Bush, the appellees, were complainants in the court below; the appellants, Tishomingo Savings Institution et al., were defendants there. Appellees filed their bill of complaint December 8, 1886, in the chancery court of Lee county, averring and charging that R. C. Cates, L. L. Cates, and D. Andrews, partners, composing the firms of Luke Cates & Co., Andrews, Cates & Co., and Cates & Andrews, being indebted to complainants in about $16,000, on or- about the seventh day of December, 1886, made a “fraudulent,…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, J.
Under the very peculiar circumstances of this case, we think the amendment was properly allowed. The assignment is a general assignment, more clearly so, if possible, than the one in Montgomery v. Goodbar, 69 Miss., 333, and under the terms of this assignment, in the light of that decision, it must be held that the money was embraced.
*131The action of the chancellor in holding Col. Inge entitled to some reasonable compensation, was correct. The amount is still to be ascertained, and will be limited to the services rendered by him in questioning the jurisdiction of the federal court by the…
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- Wilson v. BoyceSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Alabama v. MontagueSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Montgomery v. Goodbar & Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1891
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- Osborne v. VinceMississippi Supreme Court · 1961