Floyd v. Adler

Citations

• 96 Miss. 544
• 51 So. 897

Syllabus

<p>1. Equity. Property rights. Criminal trespass. .</p> <p>Where the object of an equity suit is to settle a disputed question of property rights of which the court has jurisdiction, it will not decline to grant relief because some of defendant’s acts amount to a criminal trespass.</p> <p>2. Same. Same. Injunction. Case.</p> <p>Where a carpenter, becoming unable to finish a house which he had' undertaken to build, surrendered his contract and yielded up the possession of the premises on terms agreed upon with the owner, he will be enjoined at the suit of the owner to surrender a possession afterwards wrongfully taken by him and from interfering with laborers employed by the owner to complete the building.</p>