Mills v. New Orleans Seed Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Warren County. Hon. Warren Cowan, Chancellor. This suit was instituted by a bill in equity exhibited by the “ New Orleans Seed Company,” a corporation located in New Orleans, La., against the “ Warren Mills,” a corporation located in Yicksburg, in this State.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Warren County. Hon. Warren Cowan, Chancellor. This suit was instituted by a bill in equity exhibited by the “ New Orleans Seed Company,” a corporation located in New Orleans, La., against the “ Warren Mills,” a corporation located in Yicksburg, in this State. The bill alleges that complainant is engaged in the business of buying, collecting and crushing cotton seed; that in the pursuit of such business it is necessary that sacks be used for holding the seed in shipments; that complainant owns several hundred thousand such sacks, all of which are legibly…
1Opinion of the CourtArnold, J.
The demurrer was properly overruled. The allegations in the bill, of repeated, wilful and continuous wrongs committed and threatened by appellants, warranted the issuance of the injunction. The jurisdiction of equity in such case cannot be doubted.
It is said that the prevention of vexatious litigation and of a multiplicity of suits constitutes a favorite ground for the exercise of the jurisdiction of equity ; and it may be laid down as general rule that, wherever the rights of a party aggrieved cannot be protected or enforced in the ordinary course of proceedings at law, except by numerous…
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