Jones v. Lincoln County

Citations

• 112 Miss. 626
• 73 So. 620

Syllabus

<p>1. Highways. Highway districts. Employment of counsel.</p> <p>Where a board of supervisors was interested in maintaining the validity of bonds issued by it, in a proceeding to organize a good road district and the road commissioners were interested to defeat the bond issue, so that the interest of the board of supervisors and the interest of the commissioners was in direct conflict, in a suit to sustain the regularity and validity- of such bonds the commissioners were entitled to he represented by counsel of their own choosing although the board of supervisors had employed able counsel to represent both sides of the controversy.</p> <p>2. Highways. Good roads districts. Statute. Construction.</p> <p>Under Laws 1914, chapter 176, section 5, in relation to the duty and powers of highway cpmmissions and providing that such commissioners may employ legal counsel if necessary, such board of commissioners are not required to submit contracts for the employment of counsel to the board of supervisors, since the act does not specifically require this to be done, although such act does require that the commissioners submit to the board of-supervisors for approval their plans for the establishment and construction of roads.</p>