Gulf Compress Co. v. Wooten Cotton Co.

Mississippi Supreme Court
Gulf Compress Co. v. Wooten Cotton Co., 98 Miss. 651 (Miss. 1910)
54 So. 86
Smith

Gulf Compress Co. v. Wooten Cotton Co.

Opinion of the Court

Smith, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The bill, answers, and exhibits thereto, on which this case was set down for hearing, do not present a cause warranting the interference of equity in order to prevent a multiplicity of suits. Railroad Co. v. Barnes, 94 Miss. 484, 48 South. 823.

Affirmed and remanded.

Reference

Full Case Name
Gulf Compress Company v. Wooten Cotton Company
Status
Published
Syllabus
Chancery Court. Multiplicity of suits. Injunction. A hill in equity floes not lie to prevent a multiplicity of suits unless the same legal questions and practically the same facts are involved in the suits, the separate prosecution of which are sought to be restrained and complainant must have a good legal or equitable defense to them.