Gambrill v. Gulf States Creosoting Co.

The appellee, complainant below, filed its bill of complaint in the Chancery Court of Rankin County on November 29, 1950, seeking to have declared null and void a proclamation issued by the Governor of the State of Mississippi on November 17, 1950, incorporating the Town of Flowood in Rankin County. In the proclamation, the Governor also appointed the officers of the municipality: a mayor, town marshal, town clerk, and a board of aldermen, and said officers were named defendants in the court below. The bill of complaint charged that the Governor’s proclamation incorporating the Town of…