Burroughs v. Jones
Mississippi Supreme Court
Hon. A. MoC. Kimbrough, Chancellor. From the chancery court of Sunflower county. The appellant, Burroughs, was complainant, and the appellees, Jones and another, were defendants in the court below. The opinion states the case. We do not think it can be seriously urged that our injunction •should be dissolved and our bill dismissed because A. C. Craig is not made a party defendant to this bill. According to its allegations, Craig has no interest whatever in this suit.
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Hon. A. MoC. Kimbrough, Chancellor. From the chancery court of Sunflower county. The appellant, Burroughs, was complainant, and the appellees, Jones and another, were defendants in the court below. The opinion states the case. We do not think it can be seriously urged that our injunction •should be dissolved and our bill dismissed because A. C. Craig is not made a party defendant to this bill. According to its allegations, Craig has no interest whatever in this suit. The contract between him and complainant, his only muniment of title, has been canceled and' declared void, and all his…
1Opinion of the Court · TerralTerral, J.
Nelson T. Burroughs filed his bill in the chancery court of *239Sunflower county against L. H. Jones and A. C. Leigh to enjoin a sale under a trust deed of the west -J- of southwest J of section 32, township 18, range 3 west, in said county, and to cancel said trust deed. This deed of trust had been executed by A. C. Craig to A. C. Leigh, trustee, to secure L. H. Jones a large sum of money, and, the condition of the trust deed having-been broken, a sale of the property was about to 'be made thereunder. A. C. Craig acquired his interest in said tract of land which he conveyed in the deed of trust…
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