PETITION OF CARPENTER v. CITY OF PETAL

No. 95-CA-00359-SCT.

699 So.2d 928 (1997)

In the Matter of PETITION OF Stanley CARPENTER for Zoning Variance v. CITY OF PETAL.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 11, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Clayton Barefield, Daniel Coker Horton & Bell, Jackson, for appellant.

Thomas W. Tyner, Aultman Tyner McNeese Ruffin & Laird, New Orleans, LA, Victor A. DuBose, Aultman Tyner McNeese Ruffin & Laird, Hattiesburg, for appellee.

Powell G. Ogletree, Jr., Adams & Reese, Jackson, for amicus curiae.

Before DAN LEE, C.J., and McRAE and SMITH, JJ.


McRAE, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. This appeal arises from a March 3, 1995 order of the Forrest County Circuit Court dismissing with prejudice the Bill of Exceptions filed by Stanley Carpenter subsequent to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Petal's denial of his request for a zoning variance. Carpenter sought to place a mobile home on his ninety-two acre farm, zoned Rural Fringe, despite a city ordinance restricting such residences to designated...

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