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MATTER OF INCORPORATION OF FOREST HILL

No. 47448.

280 So.2d 837 (1973)

In the Matter of the INCORPORATION OF FOREST HILL, a municipal corporation. Wallace FIELDS et al. v. CITY OF JACKSON.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied August 10, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stennett, Wilkinson & Ward, James A. Peden, Jr., Jackson, for appellants.

John E. Stone, Watkins, Pyle, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, William A. Pyle, Ernest G. Taylor, Jr., Jackson, for appellee.

PATTERSON, Justice:

An area approximately twelve square miles abutting the western boundary of the city of Jackson is the object of contention between the city and the community of Forest Hill. The appellants sought to incorporate this area into a municipality to be known as the City of Forest Hill. The City of Jackson, the appellee, sought to expand its limits by annexing the area to the city. After hearing many witnesses in the causes which had been consolidated...

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