McFarland v. Goins
Mississippi Supreme Court
FROM the chancery court of Jasper county. HoN. Samuel Whitmaw, Jr., Chancellor. Goins, appellee, a negro, was complainant in the court below; McFarland, tax collector, and Thigpen, treasurer, respectively, of Jasper county, appellants, were defendants there. From a decree overruling the defendants’ demurrer to complainant’s bill, the defendants appealed to the supreme court.
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FROM the chancery court of Jasper county. HoN. Samuel Whitmaw, Jr., Chancellor. Goins, appellee, a negro, was complainant in the court below; McFarland, tax collector, and Thigpen, treasurer, respectively, of Jasper county, appellants, were defendants there. From a decree overruling the defendants’ demurrer to complainant’s bill, the defendants appealed to the supreme court. Goins, the appellee, enjoined the appellants, tax collector and treasurer respectively of Jasper county, from collecting a special tax levied by the board of supervisors for the support and maintenance of an agricultural…
1Opinion of the Court
Mates, T.
delivered the opinion of the court.
In 1908 the legislature passed an act, entitled “Ah act to* provide for the establishment of a county agricultural high-school,” etc. This act is chapter 102, p. 92, Laws 1908, and by section 1 it is provided “that it shall be lawful for the county school board of any county in the state to establish one-agricultural high school in the county for the purpose of instructing the white youth of the county, in high school branches,, theoretical and practical agriculture, and in such other branches as the board hereinafter provided for may make a part of…
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