Board of Levee Commissioners of Yazoo-Mississippi Delta v. Royal Insurance
Mississippi Supreme Court
FROM the circuit court of, second district, Coahoma county. How. Samuel C. Cooe, Judge. The Insurance Company, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the Board of Levee Commissioners, appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendant appealed to the supreme court.
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FROM the circuit court of, second district, Coahoma county. How. Samuel C. Cooe, Judge. The Insurance Company, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the Board of Levee Commissioners, appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendant appealed to the supreme court. The insurance company, ap-pellee, had paid the state privilege tax, $300, required of fire insurance companies, under Laws 1908, ch. 13, p. 59, hut notwithstanding the provision of section I of said act, prohibiting any county, municipality or levee board from exacting of such companies any…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
This- case is before this court a second time. On the first appeal it was sought to have this court declare unconstitutional *834section 7, c. 73, p. 59, of tbe Acts of 1908, because in violation, of section 234 of tbe Constitution of 1890. Tbe court beld to tbe view that tbe act of 1908, in section 7 of above chapter, did not violate tbe above section, and tbe case is reported, 95 Miss. 168, 48 South. 183.
On this second appeal it is sought to have tbe section declared unconstitutional because in violation of section 71 of tbe constitution. This section declares that: “Every bill introduced into…
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- Royal Insurance v. Board of Levee CommissionersMississippi Supreme Court · 1909
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