Dickerson v. Tishomingo County
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Tishomingo county. Hon. Eugene O. Sykes, Judge. Dickerson and others, appellants, were plaintiffs in the court below, and Tishomingo county, appellee was defendant there. Erom a judgment sustaining defendant’s demurrer to and dismissing the plaintiffs’ petition, plaintiffs appealed to the supreme court.
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From the circuit court of Tishomingo county. Hon. Eugene O. Sykes, Judge. Dickerson and others, appellants, were plaintiffs in the court below, and Tishomingo county, appellee was defendant there. Erom a judgment sustaining defendant’s demurrer to and dismissing the plaintiffs’ petition, plaintiffs appealed to the supreme court. The plaintiffs, comprising over two-thirds in number of the resident free-holders, and lease-holders for a term of three or more years, of the district concerned, in 1907, presented to the board of supervisors of Tishomingo county a petition asking that seven sections…
1Opinion of the CourtOalhoon, J.
The statute laws 1897, p. 21, c. 17, in relation to the stock law, does not contain the words “whether in the same or an adjoining *227county.” The amendment (Laws 1900, p. 164, c. 124), does not contain them. Code 1906, § 2235, leaves them out. It follows, in our view, that the board of supervisors of Tishomingo county, which has no stock law, did right in refusing to tack the seven sections of land in its boundaries to a stock law district in the adjoining county of Ittawamba. Shaw v. Woffard, 82 Miss., 143, 34 South., 329.
Affirmed.
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