Gulf & Ship Island Railroad v. Walker
Mississippi Supreme Court
Gulf & Ship Island Railroad v. Walker, 104 Miss. 363 (Miss. 1913)
61 So. 458
Smith
Gulf & Ship Island Railroad v. Walker
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
This motion is remanded to the docket for argument, either oral or written, addressed to the following question: Has this court, upon’affirming a decree of a lower court dissolving an injunction, the power to allow appelle damages in the nature of a fee to his counsel for services rendered in this court?
Note. — The court remanded the case for hearing on this motion and upon the hearing sustained the motion and allowed the solicitor’s fee claimed. No written opinion was filed; the motion being sustained by the court from the bench.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company v. J. R. Walker
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- Syllabus
- Injunction. Multiplicity of suits. Consolidation of suits. Solicitors’ fees. Appeal and error. The Supreme court, upon affirming a decree of a lower court dissolving an injunction, has the power to allow the appellee damages in the nature of a fee to his counsel for services rendered in that court.