Bush v. Quick
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Jones county. Hon. James L. McCaskilx, Chancellor. Bush and thirty-two others, resident citizens, qualified voters and taxpayers of Jones county, the appellants, filed a petition in a suit pending in the chancery court of the county, asking to be made defendants thereto.
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From the chancery court of Jones county. Hon. James L. McCaskilx, Chancellor. Bush and thirty-two others, resident citizens, qualified voters and taxpayers of Jones county, the appellants, filed a petition in a suit pending in the chancery court of the county, asking to be made defendants thereto. The suit had been instituted a month before appellants filed their petition by several taxpayers of Jones county to enjoin the election commissioners and the board of supervisors of the county from holding an election under an act (Laws 1906, p. 206, ch. 169) providing conditionally for the division…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
A bill was filed, styled "Ross et al. v. Quick et al.” (see 89 Miss., 29; 42 South. 281), attacking the constitutionality of the act of 1906 (Laws 1906, p. 206, c. 169), dividing *37•Jones county into two circuit and chancery court districts. The complainants were certain citizens and taxpayers against the board of supervisors and election commissioners, praying injunction against holding an election under the act, and that the act be declared void. Demurrers were filed by all the defendants. The appellants here, Bush and the others, intervened in that suit by petition to be made parties…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ross v. QuickMississippi Supreme Court · 1906
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