Hughes v. Gully

This case is governed by the principles announced in the case of J. B. Gully, State Tax Collector, v. Pearl McClellan (Miss.), 153 So. 524, the allegations of the bill being, in'áll respects, substantially the same.

I desire to- say, in this case, with reference to the case of Miller v. Tucker, 142 Miss. 146, 105 So. 774, that although it was decided, as to the many claims therein involved, by a divided court, the decisions of the lower court was affirmed as to all cases where there was a mere failure to comply with statutory directions; and that the law there announced is a judicial precedent…