State Ex Rel. Cowan v. Morgan

The district attorney filed a petition for a writ of mandamus to be issued against the county superintendent of education and the members of the county school board of Jackson county, Miss., alleging that on the 20th day of May, 1926, there was presented to the Jackson county school board a petition of the majority of the qualified electors of the territory in said county, described as that part of township 6 south, range 5 west, lying west of the Eseatawpa river, and that part of township 6 south, range 6 west, lying west of the Pascagoula river, and comprising more than sixteen square miles…