Rouse v. City of Pascagoula

PATTERSON, Justice.

This is an appeal by Vernon O. Rouse and other citizens of the community of Gautier requesting this Court to reverse the decision of the Chancery Court of Jackson County and order that the appellants’ petition for incorporation of the Gautier area be held valid and that a charter of incorporation be directed to issue in accord therewith.

In support of their request for a reversal the appellants contend the trial court erred in denying their petition for incorporation in that the chancellor exercised more than a mere legal discretion in rejecting the petition and such…