Noxubee County v. Long

Appellees, J. R., J. P., Winston, and Virginia Long, brought this action in the circuit court of Noxubee County, against that county (which, for the sake of greater clarity, will be referred to as board of supervisors and board) for damages claimed to have been suffered by them because of the abandonment by the board of supervisors of the public highway in said county designated on the minutes of the board as “Road Link No. 11,” upon which appellees’ plantation abutted. There was a trial and judgment for appellees1 for fifteen hundred dollars and costs, from which the board of supervisors…