Sexton v. Coahoma County
Mississippi Supreme Court
FROM the chancery court of, first district, Coahoma county. Hon. Carey C. Moody, Chancellor. v Coahoma county, the appellee, was complainant, and Sexton and others, the appellants, were defendants in the court below. From a decree in complainant’s favor the defendants appealed to the supreme court.
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FROM the chancery court of, first district, Coahoma county. Hon. Carey C. Moody, Chancellor. v Coahoma county, the appellee, was complainant, and Sexton and others, the appellants, were defendants in the court below. From a decree in complainant’s favor the defendants appealed to the supreme court. The proof showed that in July, 1855, the school commissioners or trustees of said county leased to J. W. Ledbetter all of said land, except lots 2 and 5, for a term of ninety-nine years, and in July, 1860, the school commissioners gave a written lease to Solomon McCloud to lots 2 and 5 for…
1Opinion of the CourtThuly, J.
The chancellor correctly held that the lease of October 14, 1889, was absolutely void. To this conclusion we are bound by the decision of this court in Harris v. State, 72 Miss., 960 (18 South. Rep., 387; 33 L. R. A., 85), and the correctness of that opinion it is now useless to discuss. The differentiation attempted to be drawn by the appellants between that case and this must fail. There is no provision of law relating to the action of the board of supervisors in making leases of sixteenth sections which even intimates that they are acting in any other or different capacity than that in…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Jones v. Madison CountyMississippi Supreme Court · 1895
- Harris v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1895
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