Memphis & C. Ry. Co. v. Bullen

The road district here in question is composed of two thousand nine hundred fifty acres of land through which the appellant's railroad runs; it owning fifty-seven and seventy-nine hundredths acres of the land composing the district. There were eighteen qualified electors residing in the district, twenty per cent of whom filed a petition with the board of supervisors under section 2, chapter 277, Laws of 1920, praying that the territory therein described be permitted to come under the provisions of chapter 277, Laws of 1920, and that the board submit to the electors of the proposed district…