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IN RE EXCLUSION OF TERRITORY FROM CITY OF JACKSON

No. 93-CA-01288-SCT.

698 So.2d 490 (1997)

In re The EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN TERRITORY FROM the CITY OF JACKSON, Mississippi. Samuel COLE, Sr., Lucile B. Austin; Kenneth W. Barnes; Rev. Lepoleian Barnes; Pearley C. Barnes; Reginald L. Blunt; Annie Cole; Caroline Cox; Fletcher Cox; Lutish Donelson; Sarah Harris; Martha M. Hausey; Matthew Holden; Patricia Holden; Alma Johnson; Edith Bertha Johnson; Leslie Johnson; Angela Minor; Darlene Minor; Ella Lee Minor; Helen Minor; Sandra Minor; Dave Minor; Lynetta Minor; Ricky Minor; Sharon Minor; Sherman Minor; James R. Peatry; Pearlene Peatry; Mary E. Perkins; Willie G. Perkins; George Phillips; Mattie Phillips; Lee R. Roach; Mattie M. Roach; Walter Schmidt, Sr.; Elois Schmidt; Gloria J. Wells; Harry L. Wells; Eula M. Williams; Robert Williams; Rebecca Johnson; Greta L. Wells; Renay Hinton; Bonita Hinton and Jessie Russell v. CITY OF JACKSON, Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 5, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary B. Davis, Jackson, C.R. Montgomery, Montgomery Smith-Vaniz & McGraw, Canton, Jerry L. Mills, William A. Pyle, Pyle Dreher Mills & Dye, Jackson, for appellants.

Douglas J. Gunn, Watkins & Eager, Jackson, for appellee.

Before SULLIVAN, P.J., and SMITH and MILLS, JJ.

MILLS, Justice, for the Court:

Special Chancellor, W.E. Bearden, Jr., found in favor of the City of Jackson which opposed a deannexation proceeding filed by the appellants in this cause. On appeal, the appellants assign as error the following issues:

1. Whether the jurisdictional requirements of Miss. Code Ann. § 21-1-45 (1972), that two-thirds of the qualified electors residing in the territory proposed to be excluded from a municipality must...

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