Bragg v. Carter

This taxpayers' appeal arises from the Chancery Court of Rankin County. The taxpayer complainants there sought an adjudication that the Rankin County Board of Supervisors had leased 320 acres of sixteenth section land for an inadequate consideration which was the equivalent of a donation. They prayed that the leaseholder, Roy Carter, the members of the board of supervisors and their corporate sureties be directed to pay the county school district the difference between a reasonable rental and the rent actually charged.

Previously, a demurrer to the bill of complaint was sustained by the trial…