97 So. 722 | Miss. | 1923
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is the second appearance of this case in this court. ■As here on the first appeal it is reported in 128 Miss. 749, 91 So. 449. The case is here now on bill, answer, and proofs. The clerk of the board of supervisors of Yazoo county, claiming to have found among the papers and records in his office the original certificate of the township trustees signed by them as required by law, has, without a precedent order or resolution of the board of supervisors authorizing it, written the names of said trustees in the
However, it is not necessary to rest the decision of this case alone on that ground. We hold that there was in fact never any meeting of the heads of families of the township as required by the statute; that, whether intended or not, what took place with reference to the meeting in question amounted in legal effect to a fraud on the rights of the beneficiaries of the sixteenth section. Appellant’s lease of the section had not expired by a year or two. For some unexplained reason he sought to surrender the unexpired portion and get a new lease for a period of fifteen years. He had the county attorney .to
Affirmed.