City of Meridian v. Town of Marion

ROBERTSON, Justice:

Two-thirds of the inhabitants of the unincorporated territory one-half mile east of the northeast corporate limits of the City of Meridian, Mississippi, petitioned the Chancery Court of Lauderdale County to create a municipal corporation to be known as the Town of Marion.

The petition was drawn up and filed in accord with the provisions of Section 3374-03, Mississippi Code of 1942 Annotated (1956), and set forth the eight requirements of that section. The City of Meridian was made a party defendant in accordance with Section 3374-04, which requires that if any of the…