State, Ex Rel. v. Dear

*273McGehee, O. J.

This suit was originally brought by the former Attorney General, upon the recommendation of a legislative investigating committee, to recover against the appellees, Gus Dear and his wife, Mrs. Gus Dear, as purchasers, in January, 1944, of certain Sixteenth Section timber on that part of Section 16, Township 4 North, Range 1 East, lying west of Pearl River in Hinds County, for *274the grossly inadequate consideration of $500, upon the theory that the sale virtually amounted to a donation of the said timber, in violation of. Section 95 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890, and also…