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Madison County Board of Education, and Dick Molpus, Secretary of State, State of Mississippi v. Illinois Central Railroad Company

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided September 25, 1991No. 90-1026PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

This case arises from a title dispute concerning a railroad right-of-way over Sixteenth Section school lands in Madison County, Mississippi. For more than one hundred years, appellee, Illinois Central Railroad Company, and its predecessor railroad, the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company (“Y & MVRR”), have occupied and maintained a right-of-way and railroad track crossing the Sixteenth Section of Township 8 North, Range 1 West of Madison County, which was granted by the Mississippi legislature in 1882. In 1988, the Madison County Board of Education…

2Cases cited22 opinions

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  3. Lassen v. Arizona Ex Rel. Arizona Highway DepartmentSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  4. Cooper v. RobertsSupreme Court of the United States · 1856
  5. Alamo Land & Cattle Co. v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Lipscomb v. Columbus Municipal Separate School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2001
  2. Jones County School District v. Mississippi Department of RevenueMississippi Supreme Court · 2013
  3. Lipscomb v. Columbus Municipal Separate School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1998
  4. Morrow v. VinsonMississippi Supreme Court · 1995
  5. Lipscomb v. Columbus Municipal Separate School DistrictDistrict Court, N.D. Mississippi · 2000

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