5 Miss. 485 | Miss. | 1840
delivered the opinion of the court.
The errors assigned are, 1st. That the court erred in granting a re-hearing of the exceptions to the report at a term subsequent to that at which they were overruled.
2. In sustaining the exceptions.
3. In withdrawing the issue which had been directed to the country at the first hearing.
The weight of the argument of the counsel for the appellants is based upon the consideration that the decree rendered by the chancellor in 1830, was final and conclusive between the parties, and hence that it was error to set aside any part of the same at a subsequent term, unless it had been done by a bill of review prosecuted according to the established rules of the chancery court. I will therefore proceed to the examination of the question, whether the decree of 1830 is final, for I concur with the counsel that this is really the main subject of inquiry. A final decree is one which makes an end of the case and decides the whole matter in controversy, cost's and all, leaving nothing further for the court to do. If the decree which was rendered in 1830, be tested by this rule, it seems to me to-be difficult to conceive how it can be called final. It did not profess to be final, nor could it have been so considered by the chancellor. It did no more than to vacate certain sales of the property of Cook, to appoint a receiver to
In this case I am satisfied from a very careful examination of the evidence, that there is no error in the allowance of the exceptions taken to the report of the commissioners. The counsel have waived the particular examination of the several exceptions, considering that the assignment of error predicated on the decision of the chancellor, by which they were sustained, depended mainly upon the question whether the decree was final or interlocutory. The reasons given by the chancellor in support of his decree are fully warranted by the proofs in the cause, and it is not deemed necessary to bring forward the testimony in the opinion. It is upon the record, and is clear and convincing. Let the decree be affirmed.