Legal Opinion

Board of Supervisors v. Citizens' National Bank of Meridian

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1918PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Appeal from the chancery court of Lauderdale county. Hon. G. C. Tann, Chancellor. The Citizens’ National Bank of Meridian appealed to the circuit court from an order of the hoard of supervisors of Lauderdale county, and from judgment of that court, the board appeals. See also 79 So., 802. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.

The appellee, being dissatisfied with an order of the appellant increasing the value of its property for the purpose of taxation thirty-five per centum above that at *166which, it was valued on the assessment roll, appealed therefrom to the court below, wherein a judgment was rendered in accordance with its contentions, and some time thereafter the case was appealed to this court on petition of the attorney general, who theretofore had taken no part in it.

It appears from the record that when the appellant approved the personal assessment roll for the year 1916 the appellee’s capital stock,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State ex rel. Foreman v. WheatleyMississippi Supreme Court · 1917

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. First Nat. Bank of Greenville, Miss. v. GildartCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1933
  2. Grenada Bank v. Town of MoorheadMississippi Supreme Court · 1931
  3. City of Hattiesburg v. First Nat. BankDistrict Court, S.D. Mississippi · 1934
  4. Tate v. ColvardMississippi Supreme Court · 1936
  5. Edward Hines Yellow Pine Trustees v. StewartCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1931

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