Coahoma County v. Knox

Coahoma county filed suit against Rush H. Knox, the former Attorney General of Mississippi, to recover an allowance of two thousand dollars made by the board of supervisors for the purpose of employing an attorney to represent the county in the suit of W. F. Bond et al. v. Joe Tij Fung et al., 148 Miss. 462, 114 So. 332, and to pay the expenses of such litigation. The order allowing payment of this fund reads as follows: “Whereas, there is now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States the case of Joe Tin Lun v. Bond [279 U. S. 818, 49 S. Ct. 263, 73 L. Ed. 974], wherein there is…