City of Jackson v. Byram Incorporators

LAMAR, Justice,

for the Court.

¶ 1. This appeal involves the competing interests of the City of Jackson (“Jackson”) and petitioners from the community of Byram over the same parcel of land. The petitioners, known as the Byram In-corporators (“BI”), sought to incorporate an area of approximately forty-four square miles extending south of the existing corporate limits of Jackson. Jackson sought annexation of a certain parcel of land (“Parcel 1”), which is comprised of 22.59 square miles and located entirely within the proposed incorporation area (“PIA”).

¶ 2. The chancellor consolidated the…