Bolivar County v. Coleman
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Bolivar county. IIon. W. II. Trigg, Chancellor. Bill by Bolivar county against M. W. Coleman and others to confirm title to a sixteenth section of school-lands and to cancel the claim of defendants, who held under a lease for ninety-nine years executed by the president of the board of supervisors of said county on January 4, 1886. The main ground of invalidity urged against the lease is that the record of the proceedings by the board of…
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From the chancery court of Bolivar county. IIon. W. II. Trigg, Chancellor. Bill by Bolivar county against M. W. Coleman and others to confirm title to a sixteenth section of school-lands and to cancel the claim of defendants, who held under a lease for ninety-nine years executed by the president of the board of supervisors of said county on January 4, 1886. The main ground of invalidity urged against the lease is that the record of the proceedings by the board of supervisors, under which the section was appraised and leased, does not show that a majority of the resident heads of families…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
1. The construction placed by counsel for appellees upon § 4147, code 1892, is unsound. The statute makes it the duty *835of the board of supervisors to institute all necessary suits to establish and confirm the title to the sixteenth section lands, and to fix the date of the expiration of any lease of the same, and then, in addition, directs certain classes of these necessary suits to be instituted immediately. The necessary suits are not to be confined to cases in which persons claim any of said lands in fee-simple, or upon any other terms than that of a lease to expire at a fixed date, with…
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