Mississippi Supreme Court, 1916

Town of Carrollton v. Vance

Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided October 15, 1916 · Smith

112 Miss. 773; 73 So. 787

Counsel

Hughston & McEachern, for appellant., T. 0. Yeivell, for appellant., S. D. Neil and S. E. Turner, for appellee., S. E. Turner and Monroe McChtrg, for appellee.

Opinion of the Court

Smith, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

■“Where any municipality together with separate adjacent annexed territory, constitutes a separate school district,” under the provisions of chapter 118, Laws 1914, it is the duty of the municipal tax -collector, and not of the sheriff, to collect the separate school district taxes levied upon property situated in such “separate adjacent annexed territory.”

Affirmed.

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