Board of Supervisors v. Board of Supervisors
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Clay County. Hon. F. A. Ckitz, Chancellor. The bill in this cause, filed by the Board of Supervisors of Chickasaw County against the Board of Supervisors of Clay County, states substantially the following facts: Pursuant to an act of the legislature, approved February 10, 1860, and to a vote of the people of Chickasaw County at an election held on the 4th of October, 1869, the board of police of that county on the 18th of October, 1869,…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Clay County. Hon. F. A. Ckitz, Chancellor. The bill in this cause, filed by the Board of Supervisors of Chickasaw County against the Board of Supervisors of Clay County, states substantially the following facts: Pursuant to an act of the legislature, approved February 10, 1860, and to a vote of the people of Chickasaw County at an election held on the 4th of October, 1869, the board of police of that county on the 18th of October, 1869, subscribed one hundred thousand dollars to the capital stock of the Grenada, Houston and Eastern Railroad Company. In the…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
The pleas upon various grounds challenge the validity of the bonds executed by Chickasaw County and of the subscription under which they were issued. The conclusion sought to be reached is that if there was no authority of law for the execution of the bonds and none for the subscription on which they were based, then neither the subscription nor the bonds created a debt against Chickasaw County, and, therefore, that Clay County cannot be called upon by Chickasaw to reimburse it for any money paid by it in the discharge of the supposed obligations under which it rested.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Clark v. WolfSupreme Court of Iowa · 1870
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