Neely v. City of Charleston

On April 1, 1947, the Board of Mayor and Commissioners of the City of Charleston passed an ordinance extending the boundaries of the city to embrace one tract containing approximately 51 acres northeast of the city and another tract, containing approximately 40 acres, immediately south of the city, so far as can be determine from this record.

Miss Mae Neely and others, feeling aggrieved by the passage of the ordinance, took an appeal to the Circuit Court of the first judicial district of Tallahatchie County, where the matter was heard upon the issue of whether the ordinance be or be not…