Brown v. Board of Levee Commissioners
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Bolivar County. Hon. E. Stafford, Chancellor. The record shows that on the 22d of October, 1872, the board of levee commissioners of the counties of Bolivar, Washington and Issaquena filed their bill in chancery court of Bolivar county, against “ All persons having or claiming any interest, either legal or equitable, in and to the lands herein described,” as defendants, without naming any individual.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Bolivar County. Hon. E. Stafford, Chancellor. The record shows that on the 22d of October, 1872, the board of levee commissioners of the counties of Bolivar, Washington and Issaquena filed their bill in chancery court of Bolivar county, against “ All persons having or claiming any interest, either legal or equitable, in and to the lands herein described,” as defendants, without naming any individual. The bill alleges that said board was incorporated by an act passed November 27, 1865, for the purpose of rebuilding old levees or making new ones in said…
1Opinion of the Court
Simrali, J.,.delivered the opinion of the court:
These were suits in chancery brought by the board of levee commissioners, under the provisions of an act of the legislature, passed the-day of-, 1872. In- each case the complain*477ant makes substantially the same allegations. In 1865, the complainant was created a body corporate “ for the purpose of rebuilding, strengthening or elevating the old levees in the" counties of Bolivar, Washington and Essaquena, and by the terms of the act an annual tax was imposed upon all the lands in those counties until 1879, for that object, which was a lien upon…
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