Legal Opinion

Price v. Sims

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1917PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal from the circuit court of Marion county. Hon. A. E. Wíeati-iersby, Judge. Suit by F. V. B. Price and others and H. J. Sims and others. From a judgment of the circuit court affirming a judgment of the board of supervisors denying the petition for an election on the question of issuing bonds for a consolidated school district, Price and others appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.

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Appeal from the circuit court of Marion county. Hon. A. E. Wíeati-iersby, Judge. Suit by F. V. B. Price and others and H. J. Sims and others. From a judgment of the circuit court affirming a judgment of the board of supervisors denying the petition for an election on the question of issuing bonds for a consolidated school district, Price and others appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. No notice of the board’s proposal to issue the bonds ’ was published for three weeks so far as the record in this case shows. On this state of facts the trial court held . that…

1Opinion of the CourtSykes, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Marion county, affirming a judgment of the board of supervisors of that county, which order of the board of supervisors denied a petition signed by forty resident taxpayers, asking that an election be ordered to decide whether or not bonds should be issued by a consolidated school district. An agreed statement of facts is contained in the record. It is shown by the record that one hundred and sixty resident taxpayer's of the Hub consolidated school district, containing more than sixteen square miles, petitioned the board of supervisors…

2Cited by6 opinions

  1. Barrett v. Cedar Hill Consol. School Dist.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1920
  2. Coleman v. Board of SupervisorsMississippi Supreme Court · 1953
  3. Allison v. Camp Creek Drainage Dist.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1951
  4. In Re Validation Bonds of Orange Grove Consol. School Dist.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1940
  5. Board of Supervisors v. WalkerMississippi Supreme Court · 1921

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