Tisdale v. Three Insurance Companies

Citations

• 84 Miss. 709

Syllabus

<p>Equity. Jurisdiction. Multiplicity of sxcits. Inadequacy of legal remedy.</p> <p>Where property destroyed by lire was insured in three insurance companies, the policies containing substantially the same provisions, and the owner brought three separate suits at law, one against each company, demanding the face of each policy, and-the companies filed the same .pleas setting up the same defenses, a bill in equity will lie by the companies to restrain the suits at law. requiring the suits to be tried in equity, on the grounds of preventing a multiplicity of suits and the inadequacy of the remedy at law.</p>