McLemore v. Yocona Tallahatchie Drainage Dist. No. 1
Mississippi Supreme Court
Aureal from chancery court of Panola county. Hon. J. G. McGowan, Chancellor. Proceeding for extension of Yocona Tallahatchie Drainage District No. 1. From a decree extending the boundaries of the district, A. G. McLemore and others appeal.
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Aureal from chancery court of Panola county. Hon. J. G. McGowan, Chancellor. Proceeding for extension of Yocona Tallahatchie Drainage District No. 1. From a decree extending the boundaries of the district, A. G. McLemore and others appeal. The question is, can the statute be strained to the construction that this vast territory containing fifteen times the area of the original district and extending for sixty miles therefrom be termed adjacent or adjoining the original district? The construction of the chancellor was that inasmuch as every grain of sand and particle of clay is adjacent to…
1Opinion of the CourtHolden, J.
This suit involves the question of the validity of the extension of the Yocona Tallahatchie drainage district No. 1, appellee, by the addition thereto of adjoining or adjacent lands as authorized by chapter 281, Laws of 1920, which provides for the extension of the boundaries of drainage districts organized under the provisions of chapter 243, Laws of 1916, chapter 269, Laws of 1914, and chapter 195, Laws of 1912, so as to embrace adjoining and adjacent lands in such drainage districts. The appeal particularly brings before us for consideration and construction section 1 of said chapter 281,…
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