Mississippi Power Co. v. Leggett

BRADY, Justice:

This is an appeal by the Mississippi Power Company from a permanent writ of prohibition issued by the Circuit Court of the Second Circuit Court District of Jones County, Mississippi, prohibiting appellant from cutting and keeping clear any and all “danger trees” adjacent to a 125 foot strip of land sought to be acquired as an easement for right-of-way purposes across ap-pellees’ land. The pertinent facts are as follows.

Appellees are the owners of a large tract of land situated a few miles east of Laurel. This land is presently being utilized ,as a tree farm and has a…