82 Miss. 143 | Miss. | 1903
delivered the opinion of the court.
On the first Monday of February, 1902, the appellees pre
The substantial averments of the petition were proven. The board of supervisors, after hearing the petition, on February 6, 1902, granted the petition, and put the stock law in force at once as to all territory embraced in the petition, with the exception of the west half and the east half of the northeast quarter sec. 2, twp. 21, range 11 east; and, as to this excepted tract the petition was granted, to take effect at the expiration of four months. The citizens’ committee filed théir bill of exceptions, and the case was appealed to the circuit court, and there' the learned judge affirmed the findings of the board of supervisors, and from such judgment Shaw and others appeal to this court.
There are two propositions presented by this appeal: First, it is contended that the shape of the district is not according to law; second, that the board of supervisors of Webster county undertook to exercise jurisdiction over a portion of the lands lying in Chickasaw county; and appellees rely upon Gore v. Doolittle, 77 Miss., 620; 27 South., 997, and Garner v. Webster County, 79 Miss., 565; 31 South., 210. In Gore v. Doolittle, this court held that sec. 2056 of the code of 1892, as amended (laws 1894, p. 48, ch. 58; laws 1897, p. 21, ch. 17), provided that the enforcement of a stock law in a part of a county does not authorize a stock law district, without natural boundaries, to be laid out with great irregularity, and so as to include those persons who favor the
It is perfectly manifest that when parties petition for a stock law district in a county where no district now exists, and where not contiguous to a stock law district in another county, such application should contain a township, or sufficient land,
Affirmed.