Hilliard v. Chew

Citations

• 76 Miss. 763

Syllabus

<p>1. Justices of the Peace. Territorial jurisdiction. Code 1892, §2395.</p> <p>A justice of the peace is without jurisdiction of a suit on a debt contracted in another justice’s district of the county by a sole defendant who there resides and is a householder or freeholder of the county, there being in such other district a magistrate qualified to hear and determine the cause.</p> <p>2. Same. Judgments. Injunction.</p> <p>The execution of a judgment rendered by a j ustice of the peace in a suit of which he had no jurisdiction may be enjoined in equity.</p>