Webber v. Everman & Co.

Citations

• 47 Miss. 540

Syllabus

<p>1. Chancery — decree against sheriff on motion without notice. — Decree against sheriff on motion by a stranger, without notice, for goods seized under sequestration without lawful authority, reversed for want of sufficient notice.</p> <p>2. Sheriff — summary proceedings — notice.—The sheriff is an officer of the chancery court, is supposed to be always present in court, and may be dealt with summarily by motion, but all this does not dispense with the service of process and notice.</p>