Evans v. Wright
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from chancery court of Calhoun county. Hon. J. G. McGowen, Chancellor. Suit by W. S. Evans and another against J. W. Wright, Sheriff and Tax Collector, for an injunction. From a decree dissolving the injunction and dismissing the bill, complainants appeal. In our view of this case, if we should admit everything counsel says in his brief, it would not save his case.
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Appeal from chancery court of Calhoun county. Hon. J. G. McGowen, Chancellor. Suit by W. S. Evans and another against J. W. Wright, Sheriff and Tax Collector, for an injunction. From a decree dissolving the injunction and dismissing the bill, complainants appeal. In our view of this case, if we should admit everything counsel says in his brief, it would not save his case. If we should admit for all purposes of the law under the act above mentioned, this district must be taken and held conclusively to have been regularly organized, yet the bill must be sustained because it affirmatively…
1Opinion of the CourtWilliam H. Cook, J.
W. S. Evans and other taxpayers of Calhoun county exhibited their bill of complaint in the chancery court against J. W. Wright, tax collector, seeking to enjoin the collection of a tax on all the taxable property of the New Liberty separate school district, levied for .the purpose of creating a fund to pay for fuel and other necessities for the public school during the scholastic year of 1917 and 1918, and to maintain the school for seven months, and also praying that the organization of the school district be declared void. A preliminary injunction was issued, and upon the final hearing…
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