Riverboat Corporation of Mississippi v. Harrison County Board of Supervisors

RAND.OLPH, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Today, we are asked to abandon the common law of this state, pronouncements of this Court, and customs and practices of trial courts aeross this state, all dating back to the nineteenth century, under the guise that today’s issue has not yet been squarely before this Court. . We are asked to overrule a learned trial judge who, for some of the reasons just mentioned, determined a jury trial should be had in an appeal of a county’s ad valorem tax assessment. We reject the appellant’s invitation, finding no error, and affirm.

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