RICE RESEARCHERS, INC. v. HITER

No. 56630.

512 So.2d 1259 (1987)

RICE RESEARCHERS, INC. and Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland v. Richard B. HITER, Loyd H. Canady, Arthur Hughes Williams and Barton Williams.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 2, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin E. Griffith, Robert S. Crump, III, Griffith & Griffith, Cleveland, for appellants.

Jeffrey A. Levingston, Levingston & Levingston, Cleveland, J. Robertshaw, Robertshaw, Terney & Noble, Greenville, for appellees.

Before WALKER, C.J., and ROBERTSON and ANDERSON, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

Today's appeal involves us in a charge of stealing rice. The alleged thief is not an ordinary thief, but a renowned and respected pioneer in the development of high quality and highly successful rice varieties who left his employer's service and was then accused of taking with him that which was not his.

The Chancery Court granted the employer preliminary injunctive relief. In the end the Court held there was...

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