Harris v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of the second district of Coahoma county. HoN. R. W. WilliamsoN, Judge. Mandamus to compel appellant, the sheriff of Coahoma county, to issue to one Dolan a license to retail intoxicating liquors.
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From the circuit court of the second district of Coahoma county. HoN. R. W. WilliamsoN, Judge. Mandamus to compel appellant, the sheriff of Coahoma county, to issue to one Dolan a license to retail intoxicating liquors. The sole question presented is as to the validity of a local option election, held in said county in July, 1893, resulting against the sale, and which election, relator contends, was void, because the petition therefor was considered, and the order for such election was passed, by the board of supervisors at a meeting held at the office of the chancery clerk at Friar’s Point,…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, J.
We have given this case that careful consideration which its importance demands. We have- examined all the authorities cited by learned counsel for appellant, and others. The authorities relied on are inapplicable. The subject-matters under treatment in these cases furnish the key to the import of the word “at” in the various connections in which it occurs. The case of State v. Camden, 38 N. J. L., 299, is the case of an act providing that a railroad company should' hold exempt from taxation a tract of land at the terminus of the road. It is to be noted that, in the various acts considered in…
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