Yazoo & M. V. R. Co. v. Sunflower County
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from chancery court of sunflower county. Hon. E. N. Thomas, Chancellor. Suit by Sunflower County against the Yazoo & Mississippi Yalley Railroad Company. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. “Our position in this matter is that these lands are held in trust by the state for school purposes, and school purposes only, and that the legislature could not grant to the Yazoo & Mississippi Yalley Railroad Company even if it had intended to do so by said charter.”
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Appeal from chancery court of sunflower county. Hon. E. N. Thomas, Chancellor. Suit by Sunflower County against the Yazoo & Mississippi Yalley Railroad Company. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. “Our position in this matter is that these lands are held in trust by the state for school purposes, and school purposes only, and that the legislature could not grant to the Yazoo & Mississippi Yalley Railroad Company even if it had intended to do so by said charter.” Brief for appel-lee, p. 4. We wish briefly to answer this very clear statement of the appellee’s contention. It will be…
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
Sunflower county brought a suit to cancel a claim of the appellant to section 16, township 23 north, range 3 west, alleging that said lands were school lands donated by the state of Georgia for the benefit of the inhabitants of the several townships, and, when Mississippi was admitted as a state, that the title and control of the section vested in the state in trust for the inhabitants of the townships for the support of schools Avithin the township; that the railroad, company was in possession of a strip of land one hun*101dred feet wide through the said section, being fifty feet on each side of…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Pearsall v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Keokuk & Western Railroad v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railway Co. v. AdamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Adams v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley RailroadMississippi Supreme Court · 1899
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