Cutler v. Board of Supervisors
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the decision of Hon. John Smith, special judge, presiding in place of Hon. S. S. Calhoon, judge of the Ninth Circuit Court District, who was disqualified by interest, denying a peremptory writ of mandamus against the Board of Supervisors of Madison County, to compel them to levy a tax to pay the bonds held by E. E. Cutler, the petitioner, on the state of case set out in the opinion of the court. 1. The Board of Supervisors had the right to make the interest…
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Appeal from the decision of Hon. John Smith, special judge, presiding in place of Hon. S. S. Calhoon, judge of the Ninth Circuit Court District, who was disqualified by interest, denying a peremptory writ of mandamus against the Board of Supervisors of Madison County, to compel them to levy a tax to pay the bonds held by E. E. Cutler, the petitioner, on the state of case set out in the opinion of the court. 1. The Board of Supervisors had the right to make the interest payable semi-annually. Meyer v. Muscatine, 1 Wall. 391; Cowin v. Clark, 4 Otto, 279. 2. If there was any defect in the bonds,…
1Opinion of the CourtSimrall, C. J.
The Board of Supervisors of Madison County issued to the Vicksburg, Yazoo City, and Canton Railroad Company sundry bonds, with coupons for interest attached, of which those in question are a part.
The eighth section of the act of 1870 ( Pamph. Acts, 205 ) authorized the Board of Supervisors, after certain conditions had been complied with, to issue to the aforesaid corporation county bonds bearing interest at seven per cent per annum, *118which shall be payable to bearer, and which shall run for not less than twenty years, '■‘■and the interest on the same shall he made payable annually. ”
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