Simmons v. Hopson's Bayou Drainage District
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Coahoma county. Hon. Joe May, Chancellor. Petition by Hopson Bayon drainage district for the confirmation of their assessment upon lands of the district. From a decree approving and confirming the acts of the commissioners, A. J. Simmons appeals. ' The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Coahoma county. Hon. Joe May, Chancellor. Petition by Hopson Bayon drainage district for the confirmation of their assessment upon lands of the district. From a decree approving and confirming the acts of the commissioners, A. J. Simmons appeals. ' The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. This appellant insists that the notice of this hearing hy the publication of notice for fifteen days is not snf-ficient to put him on notice. It is, after all, a question of reasonableness, and two publications in a newspaper for two consecutive weeks is not…
1Opinion of the CourtHolden, J.
On April 12, 1916, the drainage commissioners of the Hopson’s Bayou drainage district in Coahoma county made a new assessment upon the lands of the drainage district, under chapter 196, sections 1698 and 1700, Acts of 1912, and ordered the issuance of additional bonds of the drainage district in the sum of twenty-eight thousand three hundred'and.thirty-sis dollars and fifty cents for new drainage work necessaery in cleaning, en.larging, and repairing the drainage system of the district, and in paying a balance due for work already done thereon. The commissioners then filed their petition with…
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