Stockton v. Caldwell

Citations

• 86 Miss. 477

Syllabus

<p>1. Stock Law. Code 1892, § 2056. Amended Laws 1900, p. 164. Municipalities. Freeholders of. Petitioners.</p> <p>The freeholders and qualified leaseholders resident in. a municipality, wholly included within the territory over which an absolute stock law is intended to operate, are entitled to petition for or against the putting of the law in force, under Code 1892, § 2056, amended Laws 1900, p. 164, ch'. 124, providing that the board of supervisors, on the petition of two-thirds of all resident freeholders and leaseholders for a term of three years or more, may declare the stock law in force in the county or in one or more townships thereof.</p> <p>2. Same. How counted if not on petition.</p> <p>Where the freeholders and leaseholders of a municipality were not given an opportunity to sign a petition for the establishment of such law, they should, by operation of law, be counted against it.</p> <p>3. Same. Powers of municipalities. Fffect.</p> <p>The fact that all municipalities are vested with power to prevent or regulate the running at large of animals of all kinds within corporate limits does not deprive the freeholders and leaseholders residing within such limits of their right to petition.</p>