State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Blodgett

Citations

• 110 Miss. 768
• 70 So. 710

Syllabus

<p>1. Public Lands. Sale of timber. Setting aside. Sufficiency of bill.</p> <p>The board of supervisors has full power in the exercise of its discretion to sell timber on sixteenth section land to the lessee of the land or any one else.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>A bill by the state on the relation of the attorney-general to cancel a conveyance of timber on sixteenth section land by the board of supervisors, to the lessee of the land for five hundred dollars, which gave to him twenty years in which to remove the timber and provided for a surrender of the remainder of the lease as soon as he had cut the timber, or at the expiration of twenty years, and which alleged that the timber was worth three thousand dollars; that the price was grossly inadequate; that there was no necessity to sell the timber; that it was sold by the board of supervisors because the lessee wished to purchase it, and not to promote the interest of the owners of the property, and that the board knew no one else could bid on it because of the lease to defendant, does not show fraud or collusion between the board and defendant, especially since the surrender of the remainder of the lease after the timber was cut, or at the end of twenty years, was a consideration for the conveyance, in addition to the money consideration.</p>