Boling v. City of Jackson

ROBERTSON, Justice:

More than two-thirds of the qualified electors residing in the territory East of Pearl River in Rankin County, Mississippi, petitioned the Chancery Court of Rankin County to create a municipal corporation to be known as “Pearl, Mississippi”.

The City of Jackson, Mississippi, was made a party defendant in accordance with the requirements of Section 3374 — 04, Mississippi Code 1942 Annotated (1956). The City filed a special plea to the jurisdiction, averring that “[Sjaid petition fails to set forth any municipal or public service which said municipal corporation proposes to…