Oktibbeha County Bd. of Educ. v. Town of Sturgis

How courts have described this case

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• voiding a ninety-nine-year lease because the county was granted authority only to enter into a twenty-five-year, not a ninety-nine-year, lease
• county's board of supervisors has only the powers delegated to it by the legislature
• county’s board of supervisors has only the powers delegated to it by the legislature
• “[I]t is . . . a well-established rule in Mississippi that the doctrine of equitable estoppel cannot be applied against the state or its counties where the acts of their officers were unauthorized.”
• involving a sixteenth-section lease which this Court declared void

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).