Wheat v. Town of Poplarville

Wheat, and other property owners of Poplarville, Miss., appellants here, filed their' petition with the mayor and board of aldermen of the town of Poplarville, praying for the exclusion of about one thou sand four hundred forty acres of land from the town of Poplarville, so that the limits of the town be contracted in a manner described in the petition, unnecessary to set out here. This petition was denied by the mayor and board of aldermen, and the petitioners appealed to the circuit court, and there the town filed a plea of res adjudicada, setting out, in detail, that in 1916 an order of…