Dantzler Lumber Co. v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Harrison county. Hon. Thaddbus1 A. Wood, Chancellor. The state, appellee, was complainant in the court below; the Dantzler Lumber Company, a corporation, appellant, was defendant there. From a decree in favor of complainant the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court, by Smith, J., states the facts.
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From the chancery court of Harrison county. Hon. Thaddbus1 A. Wood, Chancellor. The state, appellee, was complainant in the court below; the Dantzler Lumber Company, a corporation, appellant, was defendant there. From a decree in favor of complainant the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court, by Smith, J., states the facts. The first state legislature enactment authorizing the sale by boards of supervisors of the standing timber on sixteenth sections appears in chapter 11 of the Laws of 1898, amended in 1901 and later incorporated in condensed form in Code 1906, §…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
The appellant, lessee of certain sixteenth section lands situated in Harrison county, valuable only for the timber situated thereon, purchased said timber from the board of supervisors of said county, under the provisions of the Code of 1906, § 47-02, authorizing such sales. This suit was thereafter instituted in the court below by appellee to cancel the deed made by the board to the timber pursuant to said sale. From a decree in accordance with the prayer of said bill this appeal is taken.
*379The validity of this sale is challenged upon several grounds, the first of which is: “Because the acts…
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