Leflore County v. Bush
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. A. H. Longino, Chancellor. Leflore county, appellant, was complainant and Bush, appellee, defendant in the court below.
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From the chancery court of Leflore county. Hon. A. H. Longino, Chancellor. Leflore county, appellant, was complainant and Bush, appellee, defendant in the court below. This was a proceeding in equity for the cancellation of the appellee’s tax title to the west half of the northwest quarter of section 16, township 21, range 1, east, in Leflore county, the complainant, Leflore county, alleging in its bill that this section was reserved for the support of public schools, and that it had never been lawfully sold or leased, and that the title remained in the United States, for school purposes, and…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, J.
The case of Chamberlain v. Lawrence County, 71 Miss., 949, has no application to suits brought under chapter 123 of the code of 1892, relative to the sixteenth sections, in so far as a tax collector’s conveyance furnishing a presumption that a sixteenth section had been leased, and had become, therefore, subject—as to the term—to taxation, is concerned. Section 4148 of said code furnishes a new rule of evidence where sixteenth sections are concerned. The only presumption that there had once been a ‘ ‘ lease or a sale ’ ’ of such school lands, now recognized by the law, is one arising, under…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Amite County v. SteenMississippi Supreme Court · 1895
- Carroll County v. EstesMississippi Supreme Court · 1894
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