City of Crystal Springs v. Copiah County

This case comes to us from a final decree dismissing appellant’s original bill of complaint, upon its refusal to plead further after the Chancery Court had sustained a general demurrer. Therefore we must have recourse to the averments of the bill for the facts on which appellant relies to sustain its contention.

The bill of complaint was filed by appellant, the City of Crystal Springs, in the Chancery Court seeking to obtain from Copiah County one-half of the ad valorem “road and bridge taxes collected on property situated in the municipality for the years 1940-1946”, to quote from appellant’s…