Mississippi Code
Chapter 29 - Drainage Districts with Local Commissioners
§ 51-29-41. Hearing of appraisement and objections

Proof of publication made in the manner prescribed by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein recited. At the hearing the report and appraisement of the value of the land sought to be taken and the damages sustained by the owner thereof shall be prima facie correct. The court, or chancellor in vacation, may at such hearing hear all objections in entirety or severalty, and may enter a decree confirming the entire report of the commissioners, or may enter any number of decrees confirming the report as to any land taken. At such hearing the court, or chancellor in vacation, may direct the board to make such alteration in the appraisement as may be deemed just and equitable by raising or lowering any appraisement, and payment for such amount fixed by the judgment shall be made to the chancery clerk as hereinbefore provided. He shall receipt for the same on the judgment, and such judgment with receipt thereon shall be recorded.

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