Blodgett v. Seals
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court, second district, of Marion county. Hon. Thaddeus A. Wood, Judge. Blodgett and another, appellants, were the plaintiffs in the court below, Seals, appellee, was defendant there. The action was replevin for logs. A large part of there were cut by defendant’s vendor from lands belonging to the Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, before plaintiff purchased it from the college authorities.
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From the circuit court, second district, of Marion county. Hon. Thaddeus A. Wood, Judge. Blodgett and another, appellants, were the plaintiffs in the court below, Seals, appellee, was defendant there. The action was replevin for logs. A large part of there were cut by defendant’s vendor from lands belonging to the Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, before plaintiff purchased it from the college authorities. The logs from six trees, however, were so cut from land which belonged, at the time of the cutting, to plaintiffs. The other facts are stated in the opinion of the court. There…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
We think the appellants show no right to recover for the logs made from the thirty-four trees cut off the school lands. No sufficient action was taken by the board of trustees of the Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College to pass any right to appellants for any trespasses committed upon the lands sold previous to the sixteenth of December, 1899, when sold to them. The property rights vested for management in public boards can only be .passed by them by appropriate action taken in open session and by a majority vote of those present.
The board here did not consider an assignment of its…
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