State v. Wilson
Decision Date | 28 April 1930 |
Docket Number | No. 306.,306. |
Citation | 27 S.W.2d 106,181 Ark. 683 |
Parties | STATE ex rel. ATTY. GEN. v. WILSON. SAME v. KENT. |
Court | Arkansas Supreme Court |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Hempstead County; W. H. Arnold, Special Judge.
Appeal from Hempstead Chancery Court; C. E. Johnson, Chancellor.
Suit by the State, on the relation of the Attorney General, against J. H. Kent and others, and petition by the State, on the relation of the Attorney General, against Wilson, County Judge, and others, for a writ of certiorari. From orders sustaining demurrers to the complaint and petition, complainant and petitioner appeals.
Affirmed.
Hal L. Norwood, Atty. Gen., and Coleman & Riddick, of Little Rock, for appellants.
Lemley & Lemley and O. A. Graves, all of Hope, and L. F. Monroe, of Washington, Ark., for appellees.
As the two cases depend upon the same state of facts, they have been consolidated, the question in both cases being the validity of a sale of a sixteenth school section in Hempstead county, Ark. The sale was ordered and made pursuant to authority contained in sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Act No. 344 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1919, p. 256, the provisions of which that are material to issues involved are as follows:
As provided by said act, the Arkadelphia Milling Company filed a petition in the Hempstead county court asking for the sale of section 16, township 13 south, range 25 west, making the deposit and bond required. Pursuant to the petition, the court made an order on the 7th of June, 1920, directing the sale of the land and appointing appraisers as required, and, on the 14th day of July following, the sheriff filed his report of the sale with the county court which, on September 6, 1920, made an order approving and confirming the sale which is as follows:
On the 18th day of April, 1929, the appellant filed this complaint in the Hempstead chancery court against J. H. Kent, the original purchaser of four of the 40's of the said sixteenth section, and by amendment later the subsequent purchasers of land from Kent were made parties to the suit. In this complaint it was alleged that the sale of the land to Kent and the order of the court confirming the sale were void, and prayed for cancellation of the deed from the commissioner of state lands to Kent, and for cancellation of deeds from Kent to those holding under him, and for judgment for the value of timber cut and removed from the land.
The defendants (appellees) interposed a demurrer, which demurrer was sustained, and, from the order sustaining same, plaintiff (appellant) appealed to this court. Subsequently plaintiffs filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the Hempstead circuit court, in which it prayed that the judgment of the county court confirming the sale to defendant Kent be declared to be void. To this petition the subsequent purchasers were made parties defendant on their petition, and the purchasers of the remaining eight 40-acre tracts were also made parties defendant on that petition. Thereupon, all of the parties defendant demurred to the petition for certiorari, which demurrers were sustained by the court. An appeal was prosecuted therefrom, which, as before set out, has been consolidated in this court with the chancery court proceedings.
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