Legal Opinion

Wildberger v. Shaw

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 15, 1904PublishedCited by 9 opinions

■ From the chancery court of, second district, Coahoma county. IIon. A. McO. Kimbrougi-i, Chancellor. Mrs. Wildberger and others, appellants, were complainants, and Shaw, assessor, and Shannon, tax collector, appellees, were defendants in the court below. From a decree partly in defendants’ favor the complainants appealed to the supreme court. The facts are sufficiently stated in the ojúnion of the court.

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■ From the chancery court of, second district, Coahoma county. IIon. A. McO. Kimbrougi-i, Chancellor. Mrs. Wildberger and others, appellants, were complainants, and Shaw, assessor, and Shannon, tax collector, appellees, were defendants in the court below. From a decree partly in defendants’ favor the complainants appealed to the supreme court. The facts are sufficiently stated in the ojúnion of the court. The appellants having purchased land from the state of Mississippi between the 5th day of February, 1900, and the 23d day of December, 1900, claim that the lands so purchased are not…

1Opinion of the CourtOalhoon, J.

On divers days between February 5th and December 18th of the year 1900 appellants bought lands from the state. In all they bought twenty-two parcels, seven of them before October 1st and fifteen of them after October 1st of that year. They enjoined assessment and collection of taxes for that year on all of them. The chancellor properly made the injunction perpetual as to the fifteen parcels bought after October 1st, but we think he erred in dissolving it as-to the seven parcels bought before that date. We do not see that any significance can be attached to the 1st day of October. It figures…

2Cited by9 opinions

  1. Creegan v. HymanMississippi Supreme Court · 1908
  2. Timber Traders, Inc. v. JohnstonWashington Supreme Court · 1976
  3. Clearwater Timber Co. v. Nez Perce CountyU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Idaho · 1907
  4. Gulf Public Service Co. v. Louisiana Tax CommissionSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1929
  5. Y. M. C. A. v. City of New OrleansLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1929

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