Board of Supervisors v. Stritze
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Quitman county. Hon. W. B. Trigg, Chancellor. On March 19, 1881, J. M. Phipps, being the owner of certain land in the 'new county of Quitman, executed to the board of supervisors a deed to a part of the same, upon which was to be located the county site.
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From the chancery court of Quitman county. Hon. W. B. Trigg, Chancellor. On March 19, 1881, J. M. Phipps, being the owner of certain land in the 'new county of Quitman, executed to the board of supervisors a deed to a part of the same, upon which was to be located the county site. The deed recited that the board had, by resolution, agreed to locate the county site on said land; that ten acres had been set apart by the grantor, which was to be divided into lots according to a plan thereafter to be adopted by the board, said lots to be numbered. In consideration of the premises, and the payment…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
When this case was in this court on a former appeal, we threw out an intimation that the appellees had no concern with the power of the board of supervisors to hold the lands-in controversy, but that the state alone could question its-right so to do. But it was unnecessary for the disposition of that appeal to decide that question, and it was left undetermined. -
Notwithstanding our suggestion on the former appeal, the-case seems to have been argued and decided in the court below without reference to the point which lies at the threshold of the investigation; no allusion to it is made by…
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