Donovan v. Mayor of Vicksburg
Mississippi Supreme Court
IN error from the circuit court of Warren county; Hon. R. Barnett, judge. The facts of this case are set out in the opinion of the court. cited and commented on the Act of Leg. 1839, p. 317. Shaw v. Kennedy, 2 Taylor, 158; St. Louis v. Hempstead, 4 Missouri, 242. in reply, cited and commented on the 22d section of the Act of 1839, incorporating the city of Vicksburg.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice HáNDT
delivered the opinion of the court.
This-was a proceeding by way of prohibition on petition filed in the Warren circuit court, by the plaintiff in error, complaining that the defendants had passed an ordinance by which the city marshal was directed to seize and sell all hogs found running at large within the limits of the city, and that, under this ordinance, the marshal had seized, and was about to sell, two hogs of the petitioner. The ground of complaint is, that this ordinance is in violation of the charter powers of the city of Vicksburg. Upon the hearing of the petition,…
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