PITTMAN v. CURRIE

No. 52266.

391 So.2d 654 (1980)

Edwin Lloyd PITTMAN, Secretary of State, v. Jack T. CURRIE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 17, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen. by R. Lloyd Arnold and William Mack Cameron, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellant.

John T. Armstrong, John T. Armstrong, Jr., Armstrong & Hoffman, Hazlehurst, Jones & Markow, Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROBERTSON, BOWLING and COFER, JJ.


COFER, Justice:

This case has been brought here on appeal from the action of the Chancery Court of Copiah County in overruling special demurrer. Appellee Jack T. Currie brought suit to cancel as a cloud on his title a sale to the State in 1948 for 1947 taxes of minerals. The suit is against the State of Mississippi and Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Secretary of State, to whom the legislature had placed the responsibility for handling public lands. Mississippi Code 1972 Annotated...

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