Collins v. Barrier
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Yazoo County. Host. T. J. Wharton, Judge. W. H. Collins, desiring to retail liquors in “ beat one, Yazoo County,” prepared sis petitions, the headings to which differed materially. These several petitions were circulated in different parts of the beat and signatures received to them.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Yazoo County. Host. T. J. Wharton, Judge. W. H. Collins, desiring to retail liquors in “ beat one, Yazoo County,” prepared sis petitions, the headings to which differed materially. These several petitions were circulated in different parts of the beat and signatures received to them. Before they were presented to the board of supervisors the petition the heading to which conformed most nearly to the requirements of the statute, was selected, and the names which been signed to the other petitions annexed to it, the headings to these latter petitions being…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
The signers of the counter-petitions had the right to appeal from the action of the board of supervisors.
The counter-petitions were improperly rejected by the boards That they petitioned that license should not be granted “ to W. H. Collins or L. D, Manor (or to any one else within the next twelvemonths)” was not a valid objection. The petitions were both particular (as to those named) and general, and should have been so-treated. Even after rejecting the counter-petitions the board should not have granted license, because it did not appear that a majority of the legal voters required had…
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