Sumrall v. State

*762The original opinion, withdrawn in part, was as follows:

Lee, J.

Sumrall had been in possession of the land involved in this suit for two or three years. It was in sixteenth section, and he presumed that his title rested on a 99 year lease. Moreover, he had heard that the lease would expire in 1948. Consequently, in 1947, he made application to the Board of Supervisors of Walthall County for a twenty-five year lease of said land. The board, at its January 1948 meeting, approved a ten year lease to him; but the transaction was not consummated. In the meantime he secured the services of an…