75 So. 258 | Miss. | 1917
delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit was instituted in the circuit court of Sunflower county by petition for writ of certiorari, praying that the records of the board of supervisors be sent to the court to review the action of said board in declaring a full stock .law to be in force in supervisor’s district No. 1 of said county. The writ was issued, and the case was tried in the circuit court on the record of the board of supervisors. From this record it appears that a petition was duly signed by a majority of the resident freeholders or leaseholders for a period of three years of supervisor’s district No. 1 of Sunflower county, asking that this district be placed under a full stock law.
The order of the lower court is void for another reason: The petition for a stock law was to put all of supervisor’s district. No. 1 in this stock-law district. The order of the circuit court excepted from this district a certain part of it, viz. the town of Inverness. In the case of Bowles v. Le Flore County, 85 Miss. 387, 37 So. 707, the petition there was to put the entire county in a stock-law district. The board of supervisors only
“It may he that there would have been too- few petitioners, or none at all, for the law with any part excepted* ’ ’
The court had no authority to change the boundaries-of the district as petitioned for. And in this case, since-the law prohibits rural and municipal property from being in the same stock-law district, the only proper order which could have been entered, either by the-board of supervisors or by the circuit court, was one rejecting the petition. The case is reversed, and judgment will be entered here declaring the orders of both the circuit court and the board of supervisors to be null and void.
Reversed and judgment here.