Shaw v. Woffard
Mississippi Supreme Court
Erom the circuit court of Webster county. Hon. William E. Stevens, Judge. Woffard and others, appellees, petitioned the board of supervisors to add territory, less than a township, to a pre-existing stock law district; Shaw and others, appellants, opposed.
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Erom the circuit court of Webster county. Hon. William E. Stevens, Judge. Woffard and others, appellees, petitioned the board of supervisors to add territory, less than a township, to a pre-existing stock law district; Shaw and others, appellants, opposed. An appeal was had from the board of supervisors of the county to the circuit court, where a judgment was rendered granting the prayer of the petition, from which judgment Shaw and others, opposing the petition, appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. This proposed district is condemned by its shape,…
1Opinion of the CourtPrice, J.
On the first Monday of February, 1902, the appellees pre*145sented their petition to the board of supervisors of Webster county, praying that certain lands in said county, described as follows: “Beginning at a line between Chickasaw and Webster counties, at the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of sec. 34, twp. 15, range 1 east, and running south to the southwest corner of sec. 5, twp. 21, range 11 east, in Webster county; thence east four miles to the southeast corner of the southeast quarter sec.. 2, twp. 21, range 11 east; thence north one mile to the northeast corner of the northeast…
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