Cranford v. State Ex Rel. Knox

Prior to 1922, by a proper proceeding instituted therefor, certain lands located in a municipality in Harrison county, Mississippi, were escheated to the state. In the final decree in that proceeding it was provided that this land should be' surveyed and platted into lots, and a lien was impressed thereon for the payment of certain attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in the proceeding-. It was further provided that in the event the land commissioner did not within sixty days exercise his statutory authority to sell these lands, and pay out of the proceeds of sale these fees and expenses,…