Thomas v. Town of Long Beach
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Harrison county. ' Hon. J. J. Ballenger, Judge. Petition by James Tbomas and others against the Town of Long Beach. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. The town of Long Beach was incorporated in. 1905' under the Code chapter on municipalities.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Harrison county. ' Hon. J. J. Ballenger, Judge. Petition by James Tbomas and others against the Town of Long Beach. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. The town of Long Beach was incorporated in. 1905' under the Code chapter on municipalities. In 1907, the boundaries were extended so as to embrace certain territory about a mile in length and half a mile in width, a large part of which was cultivated as truck patches. and was sparsely settled. It seems from the record that the reason for extending the corporate limits was that at the time the…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The verdict of the jury finds no support in the evidence, for the reason that it is manifest from the evidence, in which there is no material conflict, when viewed in the light of the rule announced in Forbes v. Meridian, 86 Miss. 243, 38 So. 676, that neither the interests of the inhabitants of the town of Long Beach as it will remain in event the territory here in question shall be excluded therefrom, nor of the inhabitants of the territory here sought to he excluded,-will he in any wise conserved by the retention of such territory within appellee’s - corporate limits.
Reversed and remanded.
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Forbes v. City of MeridianMississippi Supreme Court · 1905
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