Woodruff v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Nrom the chancery court, first district, of Hinds county. HoN. WaRR,EN Cowaw, Chancellor. Woodruff and others, appellants, were the complainants in the court below; the state and others, appellees, were defendants them.
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Nrom the chancery court, first district, of Hinds county. HoN. WaRR,EN Cowaw, Chancellor. Woodruff and others, appellants, were the complainants in the court below; the state and others, appellees, were defendants them. The case was previously decided by the state su£>reme court, and is reported Woodruff v. State, 66 Miss., 298. From that decision an appeal was prosecuted to the supreme court of the United States, which last mentioned court reversed the decision of the supreme court of Mississippi, and remanded the cause for decision on the other grounds of demurrer to the bill not considered…
1Opinion of the Court
WiltuamsoN, Special J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The proper decision of the questions raised by the demurrers in this case involves, necessarily, the construction of the act of March 17, 1871, creating the levee board No'. 1, under which act of the legislature the levee bonds sued on were issued, and the construction of the act passed in 1867, known as the “Liquidating Levee Actj” also the construction of the many other acts of the legislature in dealing with the subject of levee taxes and the sales of lands for levee taxes, passed subsequently to the two acts referred to. The object…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Gibbs v. GreenMississippi Supreme Court · 1877
3Cited by6 opinions
- State v. WoodruffMississippi Supreme Court · 1933
- State v. WoodruffMississippi Supreme Court · 1903
- Fuqua v. Bd. of Suprs. of Itawamba Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1941
- Outlaw v. MayoMississippi Supreme Court · 1885
- State v. WoodruffMississippi Supreme Court · 1933
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