Quin v. Pike County
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the circuit court of Pike county. ■Hon. Moyse LT. Wilkinson, Judge Quin, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below; Pike county, appellee, was defendant there. Prom a judgment sustaining the defendant’s demurrer to the declaration and dismissing the suit plaintiff appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court fully states the facts. Appellant’s contract with the county was not invalid.
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Prom the circuit court of Pike county. ■Hon. Moyse LT. Wilkinson, Judge Quin, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below; Pike county, appellee, was defendant there. Prom a judgment sustaining the defendant’s demurrer to the declaration and dismissing the suit plaintiff appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court fully states the facts. Appellant’s contract with the county was not invalid. The-subject matter .was one with reference to which the county could legally make a contract. The declaration distinctly shows that, the road law, Laws 1900, ch. 119, was adopted and put into'…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, J.
Chapter 119, § 1, p. 153, of the Laws of 1900, provides that the board of supervisors of the various counties of the state of Mississippi may, at the regular April term, or any other regular meeting after the passage of the act, meet and classify the public roads in their respective counties as roads of the first-*362class and roads of the second-class, which roads are to be divided into convenient links and worked by contract. By section 11 of the act it is provided that the act shall have no application to any county in the state, except it be so ordered by the board, which order shall be…
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