MATTER OF ENLARGEMENT OF CORP. LIMITS

No. 89-CA-0135.

588 So.2d 814 (1991)

In the Matter of the ENLARGEMENT OF the CORPORATE LIMITS OF the CITY OF HATTIESBURG, Mississippi. OAK GROVE CONCERNED CITIZENS, INC. and Shadow Wood/Richburg Concerned Citizens, etc. v. CITY OF HATTIESBURG, Mississippi, etc. and CITY OF HATTIESBURG, Mississippi v. OAK GROVE CONCERNED CITIZENS, INC. and Lamar County Board of Supervisors.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied December 4, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace R. Gunn, Hattiesburg, for Oak Grove.

Paul Richard Lambert, Hattiesburg, C.R. Montgomery, Jerry R. Wallace, Montgomery Smith-Vaniz & McGraw, Canton, for Hattiesburg.

Frank D. Montague, Jr., Montague Pittman & Schwartz, Hattiesburg, for Hood, et al.

John W. Lee, Jr., Hattiesburg, for Mason, et al.

Kent F. Hudson, Purvis, Kathy D. Sones, Columbia, for Lamar County Bd. of Sup'rs.

Jerry L. Mills, Pyle, Dreher, Mills & Woods, Jackson, G. Kenner Ellis, Jr., Greenville, for amicus curiae.

En Banc.


HAWKINS, Presiding Justice, for the court:

This case is before us on two separate appeals from the decree of the Forrest County Chancery Court denying in part and affirming in part an ordinance of the City of Hattiesburg seeking to extend and enlarge its municipal corporate limits. The City appeals the chancellor's decision to deny the city's annexation of certain Lamar County lands. The Oak Grove Concerned Citizens Association and the Shadow Wood/Richburg Concerned...

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