Bowles v. Leflore County
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Leflore county. Hon. A. MoO. Kimbrough, Judge. Bowles, the appellant, petitioned the board of supervisors of Leflore county to reconsider and vacate an order previously made purporting to put the stock law in force in a part of the county. The board denied his petition, and he appealed to the circuit court. The circuit court dismissed the proceeding, and Bowles appealed to the supreme court.
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From the circuit court of Leflore county. Hon. A. MoO. Kimbrough, Judge. Bowles, the appellant, petitioned the board of supervisors of Leflore county to reconsider and vacate an order previously made purporting to put the stock law in force in a part of the county. The board denied his petition, and he appealed to the circuit court. The circuit court dismissed the proceeding, and Bowles appealed to the supreme court. At its April meeting, 1903, a petition was presented to the board of supervisors of Leflore county for a general stock law for the entire county. There was a counter petition…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
The petitions to the April term, 1903, of the board, are all that the stock law be put in .force in the whole county. On these, the order of the board, not appealed from, putting the law in force in the whole county, excepting a certain part of it, was void. It may be that there would have been too few petitioners, or none at all, for the law with any part excepted. Code 1892, § 2056. As to the stock law, therefore, the law remains as it was before the order, and will so continue until the board acts on the petitions, from which action an appeal will lie.
But this void order was not subject to…
2Cited by1 opinion
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