Craft v. DeSoto County

Citations

• 79 Miss. 618

Syllabus

<p>1. Board of Supervisors. Roads. Code 1892, $ 3892. Jurisdiction. Record.</p> <p>Boards of supervisors in laying' out and opening- public roads, under code 1892, g 3892, providing- for such proceedings, exercise a special statutory authority, and it is essential to the validity of their proceedings that the jurisdictional facts appear of record.</p> <p>2. Same. Petitioners.</p> <p>Unless it appears of record that a requisite number of the petitioners for the laying out and opening of a public road are freeholders or householders of the county, the proceedings will be void.</p> <p>3. Same. Waiver. Ju/risdictional facts.</p> <p>Jurisdictional facts cannot be waived. Sullwvan v. LaPayette Comity, 58 Miss., 790, explained.</p>