City of Biloxi v. Cawley

PATTERSON, Justice:

This appeal is from an order of the Chancery Court of the Second Judicial District of Harrison County which sustained a demurrer to the appellant’s bill of complaint. An interlocutory appeal was granted to settle the legal principles of the case.

By its bill of complaint the City of Biloxi sought to annex certain property to it which lies north of Biloxi Bay. The petition alleged, among other things, the following:

1. That, at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of Biloxi, Mississippi, held on May 18, 1971, the Council of the City of Biloxi, Mississippi duly and…