Spencer v. Washington County
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the circuit court of Washington county. Hon. Sydney M. Smith, Judge. Spencer and others, appellants, were plaintiffs in the court below and Washington county, appellee, was defendant there. From a judgment in defendant’s favor plaintiffs appealed to the supreme court.
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Prom the circuit court of Washington county. Hon. Sydney M. Smith, Judge. Spencer and others, appellants, were plaintiffs in the court below and Washington county, appellee, was defendant there. From a judgment in defendant’s favor plaintiffs appealed to the supreme court. On May 6, 1907, Spencer and others, citizens of the county, presented to the board of supervisors a petition in writing, containing the signatures of more than one-third of the aggregate number of the qualified electors of the county, requesting the board to order an election, to be held in the month of May, 1907, to…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, C. J.
Since the appeal to the circuit court was properly taken in •all respects, and the court had jurisdiction to hear the cause, it was clearly error to dismiss the appeal. The court should have ■entertained the appeal and determined the cause.
Eor this error, the judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.
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