State Ex Rel. Knox v. Miller

The decree in the escheat proceeding did not direct the land commissioner to sell the land here in question, hut simply granted him “sixty days within which to exercise his statutory power as land commissioner to sell such real estate or any part thereofconsequently, the existence of a statutory power in the land commissioner to sell the land was not foreclosed thereby, and is here open for consideration.

The land consists of city lots, valuable chiefly for urban and not rural purposes. The case is therefore ruled by Huber v. Freret, 138 Miss. 238, 103 So. 3, and Jenkins v. Bernard (No.…