State v. Board of School Commissioners
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Chancery Court. Bill by the State of Alabama against the Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County to annul certain leases, to enjoin waste and for other purposes. Decree for respondent on demurrer, and complainant appeals.
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Appeal from Mobile Chancery Court. Bill by the State of Alabama against the Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County to annul certain leases, to enjoin waste and for other purposes. Decree for respondent on demurrer, and complainant appeals. The following is the decree of the chancellor': “The bill joins as respondents the school board, the individual members thereof, and those who have been members of this board for some time past, with various other parties to Avhom it is alleged leases have been given by. such board authorizing such parties to box for turpentine and to cut the…
1Opinion of the CourtMayfield, J.
— This is a bill in equity by the state against the board of school commissioners of Mobile county, as a corporation, against each present and each ex-member, individually, and against scores of persons to whom the present board and past boards have made leases of the sixteenth section school lands of Mobile county for the purpose of turpentining and removing timber therefrom. The theory of the bill is that these leases are void because unauthorized by law, and that the lessees, acting under the leases, have committed, are committing, and will continue to commit waste as to these school lands…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Boyd's Lessee v. GravesSupreme Court of the United States · 1819
- Wilcox v. JacksonSupreme Court of the United States · 1839
- Stuart v. LairdSupreme Court of the United States · 1803
- Edward's Lessee v. DarbySupreme Court of the United States · 1827
- The Town of Pawlet v. D. CLARK & OTHERSSupreme Court of the United States · 1815
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- Macon County v. AbercrombieSupreme Court of Alabama · 1913
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