Excelsior Manufacturing Co. v. Keyser
Mississippi Supreme Court
Excelsior Manufacturing Co. v. Keyser, 62 Miss. 155 (Miss. 1884)
Campbell
Excelsior Manufacturing Co. v. Keyser
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The “ Act to Amend § 1255 of the Code of 1880,” approved March 11, 1884, was remedial in its character, and embraced causes •of action existing when it was passed so as to entitle a creditor to :avail of its provisions. Green v. Anderson, 39 Miss. 359.
The decree is reversed, the injunction dissolved, and the cause remanded for further proceedings in the court below.
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- Lien. Purchase-money of personal property. Seizure proceeding. Act March 11, 1884, construed. Pkisting causes of action. The act approved March 11, 1884, amendatory of § 1255, of the Code of1880, and which gives a plaintiff suing at law for the purchase-money of property sold by him to the defendant a lien upon such property while in the latter’s hands, and provides for the issuance of a writ of seizure upon the filing of the declaration, and for “ a special execution for the sale of such property,” in addition to a personal judgment against the defendant, is in its character remedial, and hence may be applied in cases where the causes of action existed at the time of its passage. .