City of Jackson v. Merchants Bank & Trust Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Hinds county. How. O. B. Taylor, Chancellor. Bill by the Merchants Bank & Trust Company against the City of Jackson. From a decree granting relief in part both sides appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. ■ Granting that estoppel applies -to municipal corporations, the act must be within the scope of the authori.ty of its officers. (28th.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Hinds county. How. O. B. Taylor, Chancellor. Bill by the Merchants Bank & Trust Company against the City of Jackson. From a decree granting relief in part both sides appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. ■ Granting that estoppel applies -to municipal corporations, the act must be within the scope of the authori.ty of its officers. (28th. Cyc., 465.) In only two cases has the doctrine of estoppel even been hinted at by our- court. They are Witherspoon v. ,Meridian, 69 Miss. 288, 13 So. 843; Vicksburg v. Marshall, 59 Miss. 563. In the…
1Opinion of the Court
Hoi,DEN, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellee, Merchants Bank & Trust Company, exhibited its bill in the chancery court of the First district of Hinds county, seeking confirmation of its title to a strip of land occupied by it, and alleged to be part of Bobinson street in the city of Jackson. The appellant, city of Jackson, filed its .answer and cross-bill, denying that the appellee was entitled to the relief prayed for in the bill of complaint, and prayed that the appellant, city of Jackson, be decreed the possession of the said strip of. land in controversy and that the…
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