Opinion ID: 1772507
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: The Fowlers' request for a temporary restraining order and further injunctive relief in regards to the Fowlers' automobile properly raises equity jurisdiction.

Text: ¶ 26. With respect to the restraining order to prevent the release of the Fowler's automobile, the chancery court found that jurisdiction attaches at the time a suit is filed. In this case, the Fowlers filed the complaint and later amended it. Then Ridgeland's police department subsequently released the Fowlers' automobile. But because Ridgeland's police department was in possession of the car at the time the suit was filed, equity jurisdiction had attached and the case was properly in chancery court. Under this Court's holding in Penrod, 433 So.2d at 919, the chancery court had jurisdiction.