Selleck v. Macon Compress & Warehouse Co.
Selleck v. Macon Compress & Warehouse Co.
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
Pearce v. Twitchell, 41 Miss., 344, as explained in Meyer v. Mosler, 64 Miss., 610, does hot hold that an action of replevin can be brought in the name of one person for the use of another, but that, if it is so brought, only the rights of the nominal plaintiff can be regarded, the “name of the usee being-treated as mere surplusage.’’ If Mrs. Selleck had brought re-plevin in her own name for the use of the bank, the suit could not have been maintained. So counsel misapprehend Johnson v. White., 13 Smed. & M., 584; and Bailey v. Colby, 66 Am. Dec., 752, is not in point here. The bank alone could have maintained replevin or trover against appellee. Mortimore v. Ragsdale, 62 Miss., 86. We think the bill does sufficiently show
The bank was a proper party defendant. It did not have “the same” interest identically with Mrs. Selleck, but in part a different interest. It was concerned merely to apply the proceeds of the cotton so far as needed to satisfy the debt for which it was collateral security. Mrs. Selleck was interested, not only to have this done, but to get for herself the surplus, if any, over the amount of the debt to the bank.
The citation, 1 Daniel Ch. PI. & Prac., p. 190, note 5, is inapplicable, and so is Boyd v. Swing, 38 Miss., 182. In this last case the recovery sought against Boyd was on the bond, as surety of Thomas Arnot. The recovery sought against John W. Arnot, brother of Thomas, was for profits made by him by using .the money coming to him from Thomas Arnot in planting. The parties were utter strangers to each other, the grounds of liability wholly different, and neither connected
It follows as a corollary from what has been said — the cotton being in the possession of the appellee — that the demurrer to the cross bill should have been overruled.
The decree is reversed, the demurrers to the original and cross MU loth overruled, and the appellee allowed thirty days frcmi the filing of the mandate in the court lelow within which to answer.
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