Legal Opinion
Board of Supervisors v. Newell
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided February 4, 1952No. 38171PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
The question presented is whether the record warranted the finding of the chancery court that certain lands origi nally conveyed with, a reversionary clause to a now abolished school district had been abandoned for school purposes by the successor school district. It is claimed that the abandonment and reversion took place within three days after the new district was organized, and when the pupils of the former district began attending a different school building ten miles away.
The Woodrow Wilson Consolidated School District of Franklin County, Mississippi, was organized in 1929. On October…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Mills v. Evansville SeminaryWisconsin Supreme Court · 1883
- Rowe v. City of MinneapolisSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1892
- McCullough v. Swifton Consolidated School DistrictSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1941
- Koonz v. Joint School District No. 4Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1950
- Gage v. School-District No. 7Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1886
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3Cited by9 opinions
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- Lafayette Steel Erectors, Inc. v. Roy Anderson Corp.District Court, S.D. Mississippi · 1997
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