Jones v. Jones
This text of 79 Miss. 261 (Jones v. Jones) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Mississippi Supreme Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
delivered the opinion of the court.
The case of Gordon v. Warfield, 74 Miss., 553 (21 So. Rep., 151), rests on the ground that the defendant therein was a nonresident, and no remedy existed by reason of such non-residence otherwise than as prayed in the bill therein. These parties are all residents of Washington county. It was never [266]*266within the contemplation of the statutes invoked by appellant to authorize chancery courts to take cognizance of a suit for unliquidated damages arising out of a tort, before there has been any judgment at law ascertaining the damages, the defendant being within the jurisdiction of the court.
Affirmed.
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