Cox v. Robinson

RODGERS, Presiding Justice.

The facts in this case are almost identical with the facts set out in Ethridge v. Drinkwater, 252 So.2d 788 (Miss.1971). In the instant case, as in Ethridge, the County Superintendent of Education of Madison County, Mississippi, refused to sign a lease of sixteenth section school lands as required by Mississippi Code Annotated § 29-3-55 (1972). The attempted appeal from the order of the board of supervisors leasing the land was dismissed because it was not perfected within the time required by law. See Cox v. Board of Supervisors of Madison County, 290 So.2d 629…