Browning v. Mathews
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Lafayette county. Hon. B. T. Kimbrough, Chancellor. In 1887 a stock law district was established in Lafayette county, by order of the board of supervisors, under authority of the act of March 5, 1878 (Acts, p. 305), which included the lands of the appellant.
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From the chancery court of Lafayette county. Hon. B. T. Kimbrough, Chancellor. In 1887 a stock law district was established in Lafayette county, by order of the board of supervisors, under authority of the act of March 5, 1878 (Acts, p. 305), which included the lands of the appellant. In 1893, while the said district was still governed by the act of 1878, the board of supervisors, claiming authority so to do under §§ 2060, 2062, code of 1892, made an order for the erection of a fence around the area covered by said district, and, to pay for the same, levied a tax on certain designated lands…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
The act approved March 5, 1878 (Acts, p. 305), contains in itself a complete scheme, under which any parts, or the whole, of the counties of Monroe, Clay, Chickasaw, Oktibbeha, Lowndes, Panola, Lafayette, DeSoto and Copiah might be put into districts in which stock should not be permitted to run at large. It further provided for the appointment of commissioners, who were authorized to assess all real estate situated within such districts, and to collect a tax thereon, and to expend the same in the construction and repairing of a suitable fence separating such districts from other portions of…
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