Ridgeway v. Jones

Citations

• 122 Miss. 624
• 84 So. 692

Syllabus

<p>1. Appeal and. Error, Assignee’s right to prosecute suit in assignor’s name includes right to appeal.</p> <p>The right conferred by chapter 134, Laws 1916 (section 497, Hemingway’s Code), on the assignee of any interest in a chose in action to begin, prosecute, and continue any suit or action thereon in the name of the assignor includes the right to appeal to the supreme court from a judgment in an action which was begun and prosecuted in the court below in the name of the assignor.</p> <p>2. Appeal and Error. Assignee prosecuting action to judgment in name of assignor must appear in his name.</p> <p>An assignee of an interest in a chose in action, on which suit was prosecuted to judgment in the court below in the name of the assignor cannot appeal from the judgment in his own name, but must prosecute the appeal in the name of the assignor.</p> <p>3. Appeal and Error. Appeal hy partners must he in their individual names.</p> <p>Where persons composing a partnership have the right to appeal the appeal must be prosecuted' in their individual names and not in the name of the partnersihp.</p>