Edward Hines Yellow Pine Trustees v. State ex rel. Moore

The case first styled above is an appeal from the circuit court of Pearl River county; the second case is an appeal from the chancery court of that county (For convenience the appellee in the first case, who is the appellant in the second, will be referred to as “the state,” while the adversary parties, who are the same in each case, will be referred to as “the Hines trustees.”) These cases are considered and decided together because there are questions in common, the determination of which disposes of both, rendering it unnecessary to decide any other questions involved.

Both are suits by the…