Strong v. Pearl Municipal Separate School District for Pearl

ROBERTSON, Justice,

for the Court:

After the complainants, P. D. Strong and others, had rested their case, the Chancery Court of Rankin County sustained the defendants’ motion to exclude the evidence and dismiss the bill of complaint. The complainants appeal.

*1389On November 27,1973, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi entered its order dividing Rankin County into school attendance areas. Property within the corporate boundaries of the City of Pearl and certain geographical areas of Rankin County outside Pearl’s municipal boundaries were designated the Pearl…