76 Miss. 368 | Miss. | 1898
delivered the opinion of the court.
The decree of the chancery court of Shelby county, Tennessee, filed with the declaration, by which Wilkerson & Co. were declared to be the owners in their individual right of the seventy bales of cotton, then said by said decree to be in the hands of Shoemaker & Co., and entitled to the cotton or its proceeds, freed from all claim thereto by the appellant, was not, and is
Under section 7é9, code of 1892, a writ of inquiry should have been awarded and these facts submitted to the finding of the jury. • And because judgment final was entered, without the award of such writ, the judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded.
We fail to discover any other reversible error.
Reversed.