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STATE EX REL. PITTMAN v. LADNER

No. 56315.

512 So.2d 1271 (1987)

STATE of Mississippi, ex rel. Edwin Lloyd PITTMAN, Attorney General, and Ray Mabus, Auditor of Public Accounts for the Use and Benefit of Hancock County, Mississippi, v. Woodrow LADNER, Louie Ladner, Oris Ladner, Johnny Banks, and Monvel Cuevas, Billy D. Sills, National General Insurance Company, United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, and the North River Insurance Company.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 16, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Sara E. DeLoach, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellant.

Larry L. Lenoir, Gulfport, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and ROBERTSON and SULLIVAN, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

Today's appeal presents important questions regarding the letting of emergency school repair contracts. For one thing these school board members and the county superintendent of education entered an electrical repair contract with a firm that employed one of the school board members. This violates our conflict of interest statute and we affirm the lower court's holding to that effect. The case, however, must be remanded...

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