Street v. City of Columbus
Mississippi Supreme Court
FROM the chancery court of Lowndes county. Hon. A. M. Byrd, Chancellor. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The policy of the government was established in 1785, when Virginia ceded the territory northwest of the Ohio river to dedicate -a part of the public lands for the benefit of schools in every township.
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FROM the chancery court of Lowndes county. Hon. A. M. Byrd, Chancellor. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The policy of the government was established in 1785, when Virginia ceded the territory northwest of the Ohio river to dedicate -a part of the public lands for the benefit of schools in every township. When the United States, in 1802, purchased the territory out of which Alabama and Mississippi were formed, the ordinance of 1787, governing the northwest territory, was applied to Mississippi. Then, by act of congress, March 3, 1802, the first general law was passed for the…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, C. J.
The appellants — about sixty or seventy in number — exhibited their bill in the chancery court of Lowndes county against the city of Columbus, praying an injunction to restrain the municipal authorities from the collection of the municipal taxes levied upon certain town lots described in the bill, and to have *832declared unconstitutional and void all laws authorizing the taxation of said lots.
The bill shows that the appellants are citizens of Columbus, and lessees of the lots sought to be taxed; that all of said lots are subdivisions of section 16, township 18, range 18, in Lowndes county, upon…
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