City of Corinth v. Robertson ex rel. Alcorn County Chickasaw School Fund
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from chancery court of Alcorn county.- Hon. A. J. McIntyre, Chancellor. Suit by Stokes V. Robertson, State Revenue Agent, to the use of Alcorn County Chickasaw School Fund, against the city of Corinth and another. A demurrer to the bill was overruled, and defendants appeal.
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Appeal from chancery court of Alcorn county.- Hon. A. J. McIntyre, Chancellor. Suit by Stokes V. Robertson, State Revenue Agent, to the use of Alcorn County Chickasaw School Fund, against the city of Corinth and another. A demurrer to the bill was overruled, and defendants appeal. Complainant makes exhibit to his bill chapter 335 of the Act of Congress of 1836, approved July 4, 1836. The second section of that act is the only part of said act that bears upon the controversy in this case. Inasmuch as all of the land in the territory ceded by the Chickasaws had been sold, this Act of Congress…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The revenue agent exhibited an original bill in the court below for the use of the county of Alcorn against the city *54of Corinth by which he seeks to recover from the city several thousand dollars alleged to have been received by the .city since 1892 from the interest on the Chickasaw school fund for the use of its separate school district in excess of its rightful share thereof. A demurrer to the bill was overruled.
The Chickasaw school fund was obtained by the state from the sale of the land set apart to the state of Mississippi for the use of schools within the territory ceded to the United…
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