Berry v. Board of Sup'rs.
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the CourtMcGowen, J.
The appellant, Berry, filed a bill in. chancery court against the appellee, the board of supervisors of'Jefferson Davis county, to which a demurrer was interposed by the appellee, and which demurrer was sustained by the court below. The bill was dismissed and an appeal prosecuted to this court.
The bill shows that the appellant was the owner of a tract of land in Simpson county, Miss., “lying without about two hundred yards of the county line between the counties of Simpson and Jefferson Davis,” and that tract of land in Simpson county abutted on a road which had been an established,…
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