Lincoln County v. Butterfield

Citations

• 111 Miss. 840
• 72 So. 274

Syllabus

<p>1. Highways. Highway districts. Annexation of territory. Statute. Bonds.</p> <p>Under Laws 1914, chapter 176, section 8, so providing, any portion of a district not coming under the act may be added to a district already established by a majority vote of the qualified electors, and where a good road district has been organized according to law, no other good road district can be organized to include and absorb the first district, but can only be added to it.</p> <p>2. Highway Districts. Annexation of territory. Bonds.</p> <p>Under Laws 1914, chapter 176, section 11, providing that good road districts separately taxed to pay interest on bonds shall not be subject to an additional tax for the payment of principal and interest on county bonds issued for road purposes without the consent of a majority of the qualified electors, where a good road district has once been organized under this chapter or the laws of which this chapter is an amendment, then no other good road district may -be organized under this chapter to include and absorb the first named district and where additional territory is added, the enlarged territory would pay its pro rata share of the bonds originally issued by the organized district.</p>