MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a motion to dismiss, on the ground that the value in dispute does not exceed five thousand dollars. The record shows this: On the 25th of March, 1882, S.H. Gunter, a merchant doing business at Sardis, Mississippi, being unable to pay his debts in full, made an assignment of his stock of goods on hand, and the debts due him by note and book account, to S.G. Spain, for the benefit of his creditors,...
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