Chamberlain v. Board Supervisors Lawrence County
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Lincoln county. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. On June 29, 1892, the board of supervisors of Lawrence county brought this action in the court below against appellant, Chamberlain, for cutting and removing trees from certain land formerly situated in Lawrence county, now in Lincoln county.
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From the circuit court of Lincoln county. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. On June 29, 1892, the board of supervisors of Lawrence county brought this action in the court below against appellant, Chamberlain, for cutting and removing trees from certain land formerly situated in Lawrence county, now in Lincoln county. It is alleged in the declaration that the trees were cut from school-lands belonging to township seven, range eleven east in the county of Lawrence; that the same had been located and granted to the township in lieu of a sixteenth section, under special act of congress approved January…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
The recovery sought in this case is of money which, if collected, would “constitute a part of a school-fund, to be applied for the support of schools ” in the county of Lawrence; ■and, by § 744, code 1880, authority was conferred upon boards ■of supervisors to sue in such cases.
Under the act of congress, the land to be -selected was to be in lieu of the sixteenth section in Lawrence county “ sold •and patented to Will Whitehead,” and it is affirmatively shown by the record that the land patented to Will Whitehead was in township 7 of range 11 east, in Lawrence county. The reservation of the…
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