Marshall County v. Rivers ex rel. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad

Citations

• 88 Miss. 45
• 40 So. 1007

Syllabus

<p>1. Appeals. Final judgment. Code 1892, § 32. County. Board of Supervisors. Code 1892, § 79. Code 1892, § 85.</p> <p>Under Code 1892, § 32, authorizing an appeal to the supreme court from a final judgment of a circuit court in a civil case:</p> <p>(a) A judgment of the circuit court allowing a claim against a county rendered on appeal, under Code 1892, § 79, from the decision of the board of supervisors disallowing the claim is a final judgment; and</p> <p>(S) A county may, under Code 1892, §93, appeal to the supreme court from the judgment of the circuit court allowing a claim against it for less than fifty dollars rendered on appeal from the decision of the board of supervisors disallowing the claim; Code 1892, § 85, limiting appeals from the circuit court to the supreme court to eases involving more than said sum applies only to cases originating before justices of the peace.</p> <p>2. Paupers. Costs of hwrial. Code 1892, § § 3145, 3158. Railroads.</p> <p>Neither Code 1892, § 3145, requiring the board of supervisors to bury transient paupers and strangers dying in the county, nor Code 1892, § 3158, authorizing the allowance of claims of persons who have buried paupers by authority of a member of the board of supervisors, imposes liability on the county for the costs of burial of unknown persons killed in a railroad wreck and buried by the sheriff at the request of the railroad company.</p>