RITCHIE v. City of Brookhaven

This appeal presents the question of the validity of proceedings undertaken by the City of Brookhaven, an existing municipality, to extend its corporate limits under the authority of Chap. 491 of the Miss. Laws of 1950, and particularly in accordance with the provisions of Secs. 10 to 16, both inclusive, of said legislative act. The act in question provides a scheme for both extending and contracting the limits and boundaries of existing municipalities, but we are concerned here only with the provisions of the act applicable to the extension of such limits and boundaries.

The ordinance here…