Case Name: Wm. F. Buckhalter v. Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad Company
Court: High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi
Jurisdiction: Mississippi
Decision Date: 1856-10
Citations: 32 Miss. 119
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wm. F. Buckhalter v. Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad Company.
Judges: 
Reporter: Mississippi Reports
Volume: 32
Pages: 119–120

Head Matter:
Wm. F. Buckhalter v. Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad Company.
Attachment: practice. — It is erroneous, where two attachments have been sued out by the same plaintiff against the same defendant, to submit both causes to a jury, and to enter judgment upon their general verdict without any order consolidating the cases, and without publication ever having been made in one of them.
In error from the Circuit Court of Yalobusha county, Hon. "W. L. Harris, judge.
D. L. Herron and J. Z. Greorge, for plaintiff in error.
F. M. Aldridge, contra.

Opinion:
Fisher, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiffs below commenced two suits, by attachment, against the defendant; one suit for instalments of stock subscribed to the railroad to be completed by the plaintiffs, then due, and the. other suit for instalments of stock not due. A general verdict appears to have been rendered, without reference to the manner in which the suits had been commenced, for the amount claimed by the two suits. No order appears to have been made consolidating the cases; nor does it appear that notice was published, except in one case.
Under this state of the case, we are clearly of opinion that the judgment is erroneous.
Judgment reversed, and cause remanded for further proceedings in the court below.