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PAXTON v. WEAVER

Nos. 75-2459 to 75-2464.

553 F.2d 936 (1977)

R. C. PAXTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John C. WEAVER et al., etc., Defendants-Appellees. A. C. BAGWELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John C. WEAVER et al., etc., Defendants-Appellees. Irby L. VANCE, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John C. WEAVER et al., etc., Defendants-Appellees. Robert C. SKELTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John C. WEAVER et al., etc., Defendants-Appellees. James L. GREEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John C. WEAVER et al., etc., Defendants-Appellees. Harold F. DORROH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John C. WEAVER et al., etc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 10, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Jyles Eaves, Louisville, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Grady F. Tollison, Jr., Robert C. Khayat, Oxford, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before GEWIN, AINSWORTH and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.

GEWIN, Circuit Judge:

Appellants in this consolidated action, all cotton farmers and residents of Mississippi, each filed suit in the chancery court of that state asserting claims arising from certain events that allegedly occurred in 1973. Appellees, named as defendants in each state suit, consist of three residents of Tennessee doing business as John C. Weaver and Sons ("the Tennessee partnership") and two residents of Mississippi, James J. Smith, doing business...

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