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Yates v. Box

Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division B
May 10, 1943
11 So. 2d 802 (Miss. 1943)

Opinion

No. 35178.

February 1, 1943. Suggestion of Error Overruled May 10, 1943.

APPEAL AND ERROR.

The Supreme Court will not entertain appeals from interlocutory decrees sustaining or overruling demurrers to amendable bills in equity.

APPEAL from the chancery court of Humphreys county, HON. J.L. WILLIAMS, Chancellor.

Jones Ray, of Jackson, Ray, Spivey Cain, of Canton, and Bozeman Bozeman, of Meridian, for appellants.

Bridgforth Love, of Yazoo City, for appellees.


Were we to take jurisdiction of this appeal and hold that the demurrers were properly sustained, the bill on remand would be capable of amendment in material particulars, and when so amended might be good as against any further demurrer. We, therefore, repeat what was said in Carothers v. Bank, 158 Miss. 602, 131 So. 111, and reaffirmed in Stirling v. Whitney Bank, 170 Miss. 674, 150 So. 654, 655, that: "Appeals from amendable bills demurred to and the demurrer sustained or overruled do not settle all of the controlling principles of a case, and these cannot be known or determined sufficiently until the pleadings have been settled. If we entertained appeals to amendable bills from interlocutory decrees sustaining or overruling demurrers, it would result in delay and expense rather than save it."

Appeal dismissed.


Summaries of

Yates v. Box

Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division B
May 10, 1943
11 So. 2d 802 (Miss. 1943)
Case details for

Yates v. Box

Case Details

Full title:YATES et al. v. Box et al

Court:Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division B

Date published: May 10, 1943

Citations

11 So. 2d 802 (Miss. 1943)
11 So. 2d 802

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