Stokely v. State Ex Rel. Knox

The state, on the relation of the AttorneyGteneral and the state insane hospital improvement, removal, and land sale commission, instituted this suit in the chancery court of the First district of Hinds county seeking to cancel a certain contract or lease theretofore made by the trustees of the state insane hospital with the appellant, Mrs. Ella Rawls Reader Stokely, which said contract or lease had been assigned to the Standard Shale Products Corporation. The bill sought to cancel this contract or lease on two grounds: First, that the trustees of the insane hospital had no authority to make…