DELTA & PINE LAND CO. v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

No. 45500.

228 So.2d 893 (1969)

DELTA & PINE LAND COMPANY OF MISSISSIPPI v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF BOLIVAR COUNTY, Mississippi et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 24, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred A. Levingston, Cleveland, for appellant.

Sillers, Roberts, Pearson & Eddins, Rosedale, Jacobs, Griffith & Hatcher, Laurence Y. Mellen, Cleveland, for appellees.


JONES, Justice.

During the month of August, 1968, the Superintendent of Education of Bolivar County published a notice to bidders for "working" agricultural Sixteenth Section lands situated in Bolivar County. The bids were to be received until ten o'clock a.m. on September 3, 1968.

At that time there were twenty bids received for leases on all or portions of six of such sections.

Appellant bid for Section 16, Township 21, Range 9, West, the sum of...

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