EVANS v. PROGRESSIVE CASUALTY INSURANCE CO.

No. 47673.

300 So.2d 149 (1974)

Andrew EVANS et al. v. PROGRESSIVE CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 9, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard W.N. Chill, Marlane E. Chill, Jackson, McRae & Baker, Pascagoula, Luther M. Dove, Jr., Jackson, for appellants.

Watkins & Eager, Jackson, David Miller Schneider, Wayne Clarence Dabb, Jr., Cleveland, Ohio, for appellees.


BROOM, Justice:

Appellants filed a class action against appellees in the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi. From a decree dismissing the bill for want of jurisdiction, this appeal was prosecuted. We affirm.

The decisive issue is: Did the chancellor err by ruling that appellants cannot maintain the suit as a class action cognizable under the equity jurisdiction of this state?

In their bill of complaint, the four...

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