McGee v. Beall

Citations

• 63 Miss. 455

Syllabus

<p>1. Bill of Exceptions. To decision of supervisors. Failure to sign.</p> <p>When a bill of exceptions to the decision of a board of supervisors is prepared and tendered to the president of the board during the term at which such decision was rendered, the exceptor will not be permitted to suffer because of the failure of the president to sign it before the adjournment of the board, as required by law.</p> <p>2. Retailing Liquor. Petition for license. Code 1880, $ 1099. Residence of petitioner. Jurisdictional fact.</p> <p>Under $ 1099 of the Code of 1880, authorizing boards of supervisors !‘ to grant license to any person resident within their respective counties” to retail liquors, a license granted without it being shown to the board, by the petition or otherwise, that the petitioner is a resident of the county in which he presents his application, is invalid. McCreary et al• v. Rhodes & Silk et al., ante, 308, cited. And such objection being a jurisdictional one, may be raised for the first time in this court, in a ease properly brought here.</p>