71 So. 737 | Miss. | 1916
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellee, as receiver of the Bank of Pickens, exhibited the bill of complaint in this cause against Mrs. F. A. White and Mrs. Ora Arnold Mounger, appellants, pray
Aside from section 147 of the Constitution, there were at least plausible grounds for invoking* the jurisdiction of equity. In this case the affairs of a defunct banking establishment are being administered in chancery. The receiver is not in position to have personal knowledge touching the various items of the deposit account which appellants had with the bank, and the bill as amended expressly charges that the defendants neither admit nor deny the correctness of the bank statement, but refuse — ■ “to bring their passbook, checks, and other evidences of debit and credit,” and “refuse to disclose even the contents thereof, said passbook and other evidences of debit and credit in possession of defendant being necessary for a true and just statement and settlement, ’ ’ etc,
The claim here sued for is not one evidenced by a particular writing, but is an overdraft, the balance of a deposit account extending over many years of banking lousiness done by appellants with the Bank of Pickens.
We see no new principle of law to be decided in this case. The only mistake the chancellor made was in granting an appeal, thereby delaying a trial of this ease on the merits, and possibly preventing the receiver of the Bank of Pickens from long since filing his final ac- ■ count.
Affirmed, and remanded.