Edwards House Co. v. City of Jackson

In -my judgment the majority opinion is squarely in the face of the holding of this court in Crump v. Colfax County, 52 Miss. 107, M. E. Church South v. Vicksburg, 50 Miss. 601, and the greater number and better reasoned authorities in other jurisdictions. 7 R. C. L. 946, section 22; 15 C. J. 559, 560, section 256, and cases in notes. It was held in the Crump case that a county was liable on an implied contract for the reasonable value o£ benefits received by it by virtue of a void contract. The contract under consideration in that case, although held void because the statute authorizing it…