Atchafalaya Levee & Drainage Dist. v. Nicholson

Citations

• 126 Miss. 746
• 89 So. 619

Syllabus

<p>Brains. Where land sought to he added to established district lies in two cotmties, chancery court has sole jurisdiction.</p> <p>Under chapter 269, Laws of 1914, and amendments thereto, where the land in the proposed or established district is wholly within one county, the board of supervisors has sole jurisdiction to form the district and carry out its purposes, but when the land lies in two counties tbe chancery court has jurisdiction; and where it is proposed to add benefited territory to a district already established, whose lands were wholly within one county, but have since been divided by the formation of a new county, and the lands proposed to be added lie in two counties, the chancery court has sole jurisdiction to add the new territory, since the legislature intended that the jurisdiction over any drainage district, old or new, embracing lands in two counties, shall be in the chancery court, notwithstanding the different conditions at the .time of the establishment of the old district.</p>