Burrage v. Lauderdale County

RODGERS, Justice:

The appellants filed a petition in the Chancery Court of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, requesting the court to confirm fee simple title in the appellants to certain Sixteenth Section lands located in Lauder-dale County, Mississippi. The County answered and admitted the record conveyances shown of record in the office of the chancery clerk, but denied that the conveyances or the possession of Sixteenth Section school lands by the appellants ripened into fee simple title because of these conveyances and tenure of possession by the appellants. The complainants, Carl Burrage…