Haley v. State ex rel. Mortimer

Citations

• 108 Miss. 899
• 67 So. 498

Syllabus

<p>Counties. Supervisors. Vacancies: Constitutional provisions.</p> <p>Under Constitution 1890, section 1, which divides the powers of the state government into three distinct departments, the legis- • lative, judicial and executive, and section 2 which declares that no person in one department shall exercise any power properly belonging to another department, and that the acceptance of an office in one department shall vacate an office held in another department and under section 170, declaring boards of supervisor’s parts of the judicial department, and sections 227-239, recognizing levee districts as a part of the state government, the board of levee commissioners belongs to the executive department, and the acceptance by a county supervisor of membership on a board of levee commissioners “of itself and at once vacates his office as a member of the board of supervisors.”</p>