Allison v. Camp Creek Drainage Dist.

Ethridge, C.

This case raises the question of whether the signer of a petition for creation of a drainage district may make a second change of mind and withdraw his withdrawal after the time set in the clerk’s published notice for filing of proponents’ and contestants’ petitions, but before the end of that day and the hearing. Appellants, S. J. Allison and Mrs. Paul Edwards, appealed from a decree of the Chancery Court of DeSoto County, Mississippi, establishing the Camp Creek Drainage District of DeSoto County, Mississippi, which is an appellee herein, along with D. B. Bridgeforth and other…