Haskins v. Board of Supervisors
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Scoit County. Hon. Robert Leachman, Judge. The petition for mandamus by Holmes and others against the Board of Supervisors of Scott county alleges, that in 1873, W. S. Haskins and others applied to the board to change road (No. 35) near Forest; that he complied with the law. Commissioners were appointed to -examine and report as to the change of the road. They reported in August, 1873, and their report was confirmed, and the change was made.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Scoit County. Hon. Robert Leachman, Judge. The petition for mandamus by Holmes and others against the Board of Supervisors of Scott county alleges, that in 1873, W. S. Haskins and others applied to the board to change road (No. 35) near Forest; that he complied with the law. Commissioners were appointed to -examine and report as to the change of the road. They reported in August, 1873, and their report was confirmed, and the change was made. At the same time, one Austin Madison claimed damages for his property taken for the new road; a jury was impaneled to…
1Opinion of the CourtSimrall, J.
The relator sought by mandamus to compel the board of supervisors of Scott county to establish a certain change in one of the public roads of the county; to approve the report of the commissioners appointed to lay out the road, and order the issuance of a warrant on the county treasurer for $87.00, in favor of Austin Madison, the amount awarded by the inquisition, of damages for putting the road upon his land. The relators are William Has-*409kins and eleven others, freeholders of the county of Scott (their names are not given). The alternate writ is not in the transcript (there is, however, a…
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