Shelby v. Alcorn
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to tbe Circuit Court of Washington county. Hon. J. S. Yerger, judge. The proceedings in the court below, necessary to be stated, are fully set out in the opinion of the court. The arguments of counsel on points not decided by the court are not reported.
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Error to tbe Circuit Court of Washington county. Hon. J. S. Yerger, judge. The proceedings in the court below, necessary to be stated, are fully set out in the opinion of the court. The arguments of counsel on points not decided by the court are not reported. There are several demurrers in the case, which bring the complaint and all the pleadings under review, and which question the right of the defendant in error to sue at all, as well as his right to maintain this form of action. A prominent objection to his right to sue, grows out of the act of his appointment or election. He was a member…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
Aaron Shelby, on the second day of December, 1852, entered into a contract with the board of levee commissioners, of Coahoma county, by which he obligated himself, for a stipulated price, to construct a certain line of levee in said county, according.to the survey, plan, and specifications, as to height and base, &c., of the engineer of the commissioners. By the terms of the agreement, the levee was to be completed by the first of February, 1854. The commissioners paid or advanced to Shelby upon his contract, eight thousand dollars in money, and sixteen thousand acres of land scrip, estimated…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- People ex relat. Bush & Higby v. CollinsNew York Supreme Court · 1811
- Fry v. JonesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1829
- Lyon v. State BankSupreme Court of Alabama · 1828
3Cited by68 opinions
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- State Ex Rel. Barney v. HawkinsMontana Supreme Court · 1927
- Montgomery v. State ex rel. EnslenSupreme Court of Alabama · 1894
- Commonwealth v. DiStasioMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- State ex rel. Clyatt v. HockerSupreme Court of Florida · 1897
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