66 Miss. 97 | Miss. | 1888
delivered the opinion of the court.
' The suit was commenced in the second^ district of the chancery court of Panola county, !but it is not alleged or shown that either of the defendants resided or were found in that county. It is alleged in the petition that each of the defendants was doing business in Yalobusha county, and it appears from the record that both of them were found and summoned in the latter county. In this state of facts, the court below was without jurisdiction. To maintain such suit it was necessary that the defendants or one of them
The demurrer to the petition should have been sustained.
The decree is reversed, the demurrer sustained, and the petition dismissed.