Gully v. Adams County

The primary question here presented, and which, if decided adversely to the appellant, will end this controversy, is this: Did any part of the taxes here collected become legally a part of the appellee's road fund? If they did not, then the board of supervisors was without the right to apply any part thereof to the maintenance of the county's roads, and therefore the city of Natchez is without the right to claim any part thereof.

The bill of complaint does not allege that the taxes were collected or appropriated to the maintenance of special roads, or roads of a special road district, but only…