Pittman v. Currie

COFER, Justice:

This case has been brought here on appeal from the action of the Chancery Court of Copiah County in overruling special demurrer. Appellee Jack T. Currie brought suit to cancel as a cloud on his title a sale to the State in 1948 for 1947 taxes of minerals. The suit is against the State of Mississippi and Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Secretary of State, to whom the legislature had placed the responsibility for handling public lands. Mississippi Code 1972 Annotated, section 7-11-2 (Supp.1980). (It had been by amendment, brought against John Ed Ainsworth, State Land Commissioner.)

Appellee,…