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HILL v. THOMPSON

No. 07-58509.

564 So.2d 1 (1989)

Richard C. HILL, Superintendent of Education; Fred Bagley, President of Forest Municipal Separate School District Board; and Burt Atkinson, Eddie Lee Johnson, Roland Harris, and Mrs. George Taylor, Jr., Members of the Forest Municipal Separate School District Board v. William C. THOMPSON.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied August 8, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mack Cameron, Jackson, for appellant.

Evan L. Thompson, Forest, for appellee.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen., Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Helen Wetherbee, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., James O. Nelson, II, Kenneth A. Rutherford, Irene C. Howard, Thomas Price Firm, Jackson, for amicus curiae.

En Banc.

PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal challenges a Sixteenth Section School Lands Trust lease under the Mississippi Constitution which prohibits the donation of state lands to private individuals. The case concerns a commercial property in downtown Forest, Mississippi, that for years and until recently was used as a gasoline and motor vehicle service station. The lot was leased for a one-time payment of $7.50 for a ninety-nine year term and the assertion is...

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