Anderson v. Board of Supervisors of Issaquena County
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Issaquena county. Hon. W. K. McLaurin, Judge. F. W. Anderson and Babette Mayer filed their petition against the board of supervisors of Issaquena county for a writ of man-damns, requiring the board, after allowing to assess and levy a tax, to pay their claim upon two certain orders for five thousand dollars each, dated January 8, 1859, signed by four of the five members composing the board of levee inspectors of Issa-quena county, and directed to “…
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From the circuit court of Issaquena county. Hon. W. K. McLaurin, Judge. F. W. Anderson and Babette Mayer filed their petition against the board of supervisors of Issaquena county for a writ of man-damns, requiring the board, after allowing to assess and levy a tax, to pay their claim upon two certain orders for five thousand dollars each, dated January 8, 1859, signed by four of the five members composing the board of levee inspectors of Issa-quena county, and directed to “ R. M. Smith, Treasurer. ” The orders are made payable on July 1, 1860, “ with interest at the rate of ten per cent, per…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, J.
Responding to the request of counsel to dbtermine the questions which are vital, we proceed at once to the merits. The scheme propounded by the act of February 1, 1850 (Laws, p. 214), as amended by the act of November 19, 1857 (Laws, p. 87), was this: A board of levee inspectors for Issaquena county was created by the'act, called in section 8 “commissioners.” That board had a president, and levee treasurer, and its duties were “to examine and designate the lands where levees were necessary to be erected, for the generál good; to lay out the line of said levee or levees, and to determine their…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Board of Supervisors v. KleinMississippi Supreme Court · 1876
- Klein v. Board of SupervisorsMississippi Supreme Court · 1880
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- State Highway Commission v. WunderlichMississippi Supreme Court · 1943
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