Nelson v. Ethridge

PATTERSON, Justice:

This is an interlocutory appeal authorized by a decree of the Chancery Court of Lauderdale County. The appeal was granted from an order of that court overruling a general demurrer of Gulf Oil Company and Arthur P. Nelson, et al. while sustaining a similar demurrer to the bill of complaint interposed by the Lauder-dale County Board of Supervisors. We are of the opinion that the appeal was improvidently granted.

The bill of complaint was filed in behalf of certain minor educable children, residents of the township in which the sixteenth section lands lie. It charges that the…