Burkley v. Jefferson County

Burkley, the appellant, filed the bill in this cause to remove, as a cloud upon his title, the claims of Jefferson County and the State of Mississippi to 374 acres of lieu school lands located in said county. Burkley appeals from dismissal of his bill.

The primary question is whether said County, as trustee of school lands, legally conveyed the fee to said lands. That is to be determined by the record and oral evidence, aided by appropriate presumptions arising out of the proof.

We now summarize the record evidence:

In May, 1871, the board of supervisors adopted a minute reciting that the county…