Stewart v. Board of Police
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the police court of Hinds county. The record shows, that certain persons filed their petition in the police court of Hinds county, praying an order, and the preliminary steps for laying out a public road. A jury of review was impanelled, upon the order of said court, which proceeded to lay out the road.
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In error from the police court of Hinds county. The record shows, that certain persons filed their petition in the police court of Hinds county, praying an order, and the preliminary steps for laying out a public road. A jury of review was impanelled, upon the order of said court, which proceeded to lay out the road. As laid out, it passes directly through a large and valuable tract of land of the appellant, who had no notice (although always- a citizen of the county, and his residence well known to said court and petitioners) of the filing of the petition and the orders of the court, the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Yerger
This is a writ of error to the board of police of Hinds county, sued out by the plaintiff in error, for the purpose of obtaining the reversal of an order made by that board, locating a public road in Hinds county. It is alleged, by the plaintiff in error, *481that he is the owner of a portion of the land condemned for the road, and he insists that the order of condemnation is irregular and void, because notice was not given him of the proceedings of the board in the premises.
We have given to this case an attentive and careful consideration, as it is one of the first impression in this court,, and…
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