City of Jackson v. Wilson

195 So.2d 470 (1966)

CITY OF JACKSON, Mississippi

v.

John P. WILSON et al.

No. 44118.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 14, 1966.

E.W. Stennett, Val Surgis, W.T. Neely, W.D. Coleman, Jackson, for appellant.

Gene A. Wilkinson, E. Grant Tharpe, Jackson, for appellees.

ROBERTSON, Justice.

This is an appeal by the City of Jackson, Mississippi, from the judgment of the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, rezoning lands from A-1 residential to commercial after the City Council refused to do so.

In 1954 John P. Wilson and his wife, Mrs. Catherine H. Wilson, bought…