Pace v. State Ex Rel. Rice

The questions presented for determination in this case are of very vital importance to the educable school children of every township in Mississippi wherein there is located a sixteenth section of land susceptible of development for the production of oil and gas in commercial quantities, since these minerals are now owned by the state in its sovereign and governmental capacity as trustee for the inhabitants of the townships under an obligation to utilize them for the support of the schools. The decision now reached by the court on the issues here in volved is also one which undertakes to…