Spears v. City of Oxford

This is an appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of Lafayette County approving an ordinance extending the corporate limits of the City of Oxford so as to include therein, among other territory, approximately 100 acres of land belonging to appellant, who was the only objector at the hearing in the Chancery Court.

*805 Numerous errors are assigned by the appellant, many of which are well taken, but we consider it necessary to discuss only two of them. At the beginning of and throughout the trial the appellant contended that the burden of proof was upon the City to show that the proposed…