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HARRISON COUNTY v. CITY OF GULFPORT

Nos. 89-IA-511, 89-IA-546.

557 So.2d 780 (1990)

In the Matter of the Enlargement of the Corporate Limits and Boundaries of the City of Gulfport, Mississippi. HARRISON COUNTY v. CITY OF GULFPORT, Mississippi. In the Matter of the Extension of the Boundaries of the City of Biloxi, Mississippi. HARRISON COUNTY, Mississippi; Harrison County School District v. CITY OF BILOXI, Mississippi; City of D'Iberville; David Sanders Stockholders; Woolmarket Citizens; City of Gulfport Committee for Improvements of Orange Grove; North Gulfport Civic Club, Mississippi Power Company; Harrison County Development Commission; Mississippi Association of Educators.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 14, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boyce Holleman, Tim C. Holleman, Albert L. Necaise, Gulfport, Jerry R. Wallace, Montgomery Smith-Vaniz & McGraw, Canton, Larry L. Lenoir, Mize, Ingram, Matthews, Stroud & Lenoir, Gulfport, Charles Victor McTeer, McTeer & Bailey, Greenville, for appellant.

Hugh D. Keating, Dukes Dukes Keating & Faneca, Gulfport, Jerry L. Mills, Pyle Dreher Mills & Woods, Jackson, James K. Wetzel, Gulfport, Charles K. Pringle, Biloxi, for appellee.

En Banc.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

The cities of Gulfport and Biloxi have separately brought proceedings for judicial confirmation of annexation ordinances, and our questions are whether Harrison County, acting through its board of supervisors, and as well, the Harrison County Board of Education, can appear in opposition. In each case the Chancery Court dismissed Harrison County as a party, and in the Biloxi annexation case the Court dismissed the Harrison...

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