Board of Supervisors v. Walker
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit coiirt of Simpson county. W. H. Hughes, Judge. Petition by C. E. Walker and others against the Board of Supervisors of Simpson County for a writ of mandamus to compel the making of a school tax levy. Judgment for petitioners on demurrer to petition, and respondents appeal.
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Appeal from circuit coiirt of Simpson county. W. H. Hughes, Judge. Petition by C. E. Walker and others against the Board of Supervisors of Simpson County for a writ of mandamus to compel the making of a school tax levy. Judgment for petitioners on demurrer to petition, and respondents appeal. The only assignment of error is that the court erred in overruling the demurrer and granting judgment for appellee wherein the board of supervisors were required to make the levy as sought by the minority petition. We desire first to call the attention bf the court to the fact that at the November, 1920,…
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
C. E. Walker and others filed a petition for mandamus against the board of supervisors of Simpson county *608to compel the board to make a levy of five mills for the Mt. Zion consolidated school district, alleging that proceeding under chapter 170, Laws of 1920, a petition was presented to the board of supervisors by a majority of the qualified electors of said consolidated school district, which petition was approved by the county school board, and prayed the board of supervisors to make a five-mill levy in accordance with chapter, 170, Laws of 1920; that the county school board adjudged the…
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- Price v. SimsMississippi Supreme Court · 1917