Ames v. Williams
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Noxubee county. Hon. T. B. Graham, Chancellor. The opinion states the case. The appeal was dismissed by the court of its own motion, the question of its validity not being discussed in the briefs of counsel.
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
In Ward v. Whitfield, 64 Miss., 754, we decided that appeals from interlocutory decrees should not be granted unless the principles controlling the cause could be thereby settled, or where costs and delay could be avoided; and we then declared that this court would, ex mero motu, dismiss appeals improvidently granted by chancellors. This appeal falls within the class of appeals therein condemned. The errors assigned relate only to a few of the many instructions given by the chancellor to the commissioner as to how the account against the deceased guardian should be stated, and they all refer…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ward v. WhitfieldMississippi Supreme Court · 1887
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