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MATTER OF BOUNDARIES OF CITY OF JACKSON

No. 58267.

551 So.2d 861 (1989)

In the Matter of the EXTENSION OF the BOUNDARIES OF the CITY OF JACKSON, Mississippi. CITY OF JACKSON, Mississippi v. CITY OF RIDGELAND, Mississippi and City of Madison, Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied November 8, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Carroll, Douglas J. Gunn-Watkins & Eager, John Hedglin, Tim Hancock, Jackson, Joe R. Fancher, Jr., Canton, for appellant.

Steve H. Smith, G. Milton Case, Smith & Case, Ridgeland, Jerry L. Mills, Pyle, Dreher, Mills & Woods, Jackson, Jerry R. Wallace, Montgomery, Smity-Vaniz & McGraw, James H. Herring, Herring, Long & Joyner, Canton, for appellee.

En Banc.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This is not an ordinary annexation case. Much more is at stake than whether a large municipality may annex 4.92 square miles along its northern border. Rather, we must decide whether Mississippi's largest and capital city, already largely land-locked by a plethora of bedroom communities, will have another nail driven in the coffin which, if closed, will doom it to the fate already experienced by so many central cities...

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