Bailey & Bean v. Wilson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from chancery court of Madison county. Hon. Y. J. Stricker, Chancellor. Suit by Bailey & Bean against J. E. Wilson. From a dismissal of the bill, plaintiffs appeal. The Act of 1918, chapter 185, section 17, is relied on for the proposition that chapter 89 was repealed.
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Appeal from chancery court of Madison county. Hon. Y. J. Stricker, Chancellor. Suit by Bailey & Bean against J. E. Wilson. From a dismissal of the bill, plaintiffs appeal. The Act of 1918, chapter 185, section 17, is relied on for the proposition that chapter 89 was repealed. It is inconceivable that the eleven sections of the Code of 1906 were intended thereby to be wholly repealed, and the, tax commission thereby attempted to be invested with the legislative power of determining what information the tax roll shows, rather than what form it should take, from the use of the language found in…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
This is a suit in equity by which the appellants seek to recover from the appellee damages for an alleged breach of a warranty in a deed executed by the appellee to the appellants for standing timber. The cause was heard on *53bill, answer, and an agreed statement of facts, from which it appears that the timber was sold by the appellee to the appellants by warranty deed in October, 1917; that for the years 1913 to 1917, inclusive, the assessment for taxation of the land on which the timber stands was not in accordance with the provisions of chapter 89, Laws of 1912, as construed by this court in…
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