City of Jackson v. State Ex Rel. Mitchell

The state of Mississippi, on the relation of the Attorney-General, filed this suit in the county court of Hinds county against the city of Jackson, alleging that the said city was indebted to the state in the sum of six hundred thirty-two dollars and fifteen cents, as a distributor of gasoline purchased by the said city outside of the state and used by the city on its streets. The cause was heard in the county court on the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts, and a judgment was rendered in favor of the state, from which the city appealed to the circuit court. The circuit court affirmed…