Harris v. State

Citations

• 72 Miss. 960

Syllabus

<p>1. Boabd of SUPERVISORS. Pit ice of meeting. Code 1893, \\ 278. “At the cowthouse. ”</p> <p>A meeting of the board of supervisors, held in the office of the chancery clerk, in á building one hundred feet from the courthouse, is not “at the courthouse,” within the meaning of $ 278, code 1892, requiring such meetings to be at the courthouse, and this, although such building is owned and used by the county for offices for the chancery and circuit clerks and sheriff, and for a jail, and adjoins the courthouse yard, a gate of which is only twenty feet from the door of said office.</p> <p>2. Same. Improper place of meeting. Orders void. Local option election. Where the board of supervisors meets at such office, and there acts on a petition for a local option election, its order thereon and an election held pursuant thereto, are void.</p>