Lincoln County v. City of Brookhaven
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Lincoln county. Hon. Bobert B. Mayes, Chancellor. The City of Brookhaven, the appellee, was the complainant in the court below; Lincoln county, the appellant, was defend-, ant there. The court below entertained jurisdiction by consent of the parties and rendered a final decree in complainant’s favor from which the defendant appealed to the supreme court.
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From the chancery court of Lincoln county. Hon. Bobert B. Mayes, Chancellor. The City of Brookhaven, the appellee, was the complainant in the court below; Lincoln county, the appellant, was defend-, ant there. The court below entertained jurisdiction by consent of the parties and rendered a final decree in complainant’s favor from which the defendant appealed to the supreme court. Constitution 1890, § 147, providing that a judgment or decree of a circuit or chancery court rendered in a civil cause should not be reversed because of any error or mistake as to whether the cause in which it was…
1Opinion of the CourtCaliioon, J.
The case of McComb City v. Pike County, 86 Miss., 647, 38 *12South. 721,* has no relevancy to this. This court, on the record before it in this proceeding, is under no necessity, as it was in that case, to interpret the obscure meaning of secs. 6, 7, ch. 119, pp. 154, 155, Laws 1900. That statute is not concerned with the present litigation, because sec. 11 (page 156) of it, provides that it is not in force until adopted by the board of supervisors of the county desiring it, and this has not been done in Lincoln county. The statutes controlling in this record are Code 1892, §§ 2939, 3931, Laws…
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