Yazoo & M. v. R. Co. v. Bolivar County

Cook, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.. This was a suit in equity by Bolivar county against the appellant railroad company, in which the bill of complaint alleged, in substance, that the appellant was in possession of a right of way one hundred feet wide over three of the sixteenth sections of the county; that said lands were school lands, held in trust by ithe state, through the agencies of its creation, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the townships, and for the support of the public schools within the same; that the appellant claimed title to said right of way under and by…