Brown Land Commissioners v. Ford
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tlie chancery court of Wilkinson county. Hon. E. W. Cutrer, Chancellor. Suit by H. B. & Eugene Ford against M. A. Brown, Land Commissioner and the state of Mississippi. From a decree, for plaintiff against the state, the defendants . appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtStevens, J.
This appeal is prosecuted by the state of Mississippi and M. A. Brown, land commissioner, from a decree of the chancery court of Wilkinson county awarding a judgment against the state in the sum of fifty dollars for the purchased price of certain land described in the hill, title to which had failed.
Appellees, as complainants in the court below,' exhibited their hill in chancery against M.. A. Brown, land commissioner, charging the facts following: That in the year 1903 the state, through its land commissioner, conveyed' as forfeited tax land to W. H. Black the northwest quarter of section…
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