Leflore County v. Board of Supervisors
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Leflore County. Hon. Chas. H. Campbell, Judge. Legislation constituting the power to issue the bonds is distinguishable from their consideration, which was the moral obligation resting upon Leflore County to bear a part of the indebtedness of Carroll County proportionate to the taxable property taken.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Leflore County. Hon. Chas. H. Campbell, Judge. Legislation constituting the power to issue the bonds is distinguishable from their consideration, which was the moral obligation resting upon Leflore County to bear a part of the indebtedness of Carroll County proportionate to the taxable property taken. Portwood v. Montgomery County, 52 Miss. 523. After the amount of the indebtedness which Leflore County was to bear had been ascertained and the bonds issued, it was ascertained that a mistake had been made in defining the boundaries, and that a part of the…
1Opinion of the CourtCiialmers, J.
The act creating the County of Leflore contained the usual requirement that the new county should pay its pro rata share of the *223debts of the several counties out of wbicb it was formed, the porportion to be estimated according to the taxable value of the territory and property excised from the old counties and ceded to the new one. Acts of 1871, p. 587.
An accounting based on this standard showed Leflore County indebted to Carroll in the sum of seven thousand five hundred and eighty-five dollars; and for this amount the bonds of the former were executed and delivered to the latter by virtue of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Board of Supervisors v. Board of SupervisorsMississippi Supreme Court · 1881