City of Laurel v. Turner

Citations

• 96 Miss. 631
• 51 So. 403

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities. Code 1906. §§ 3398, 3399. Police justice pro tempore. Oity of more than seven thousand inhabitants.</p> <p>Under Code 1906, § 3398, providing for the election by the voters of a police justice in cities of seven thousand or more inhabitants, the mayor and board of aldermen of a city having so large a number of inhabitants are without power to elect a police justice pro tempore, nor can the board invest itself with such power by ordinance, although the municipal board of a city having less inhabitants may do so, under Code 1906, § 3399, expressly granting the power.</p>