Hinton v. Perry County
Hinton v. Perry County
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
On p. 172, Laws 1902, appears an act (ch. 123) authorizing the board of supervisors of Perry county, on the petition of two hundred qualified electors of the county, to order an election to determine the question of removal of the seat of justice from
We can see no merit whatever in his objection to the allowance of attorney’s fees, and many of the grounds on which he bases his right to have the action of the board declared void are valueless, because not jurisdictional, and yet attempted to be availed of in a collateral attack. Actions of the board not involving jurisdictional power are conclusively right in this collateral litigation. Its jurisdiction being, in this matter, limited, the minutes must show that the jurisdictional facts were found to exist. This being done, there is no need ever to set forth the evidence in the judgment, and it is not controvertible, except on direct appeal.
It may be as well to say now that Simpson County v. Buckley, 81 Miss., 481 (33 South., 650), is a very different case from this. There the bill contained specific charges of fraud, collusion, and corruption, and, of course, any judgment may be attacked on these grounds seasonably set up. In the case before us now there is no pretense of fraud of any sort.
Now, Constitution 1890, sec. 152, provides that the state shall be divided into convenient court districts, as the other three con- stitutions did — i. e., those of 1817 and 1832, and Constitution 1869, art. 6, sec. 13, did. So if there is to be any change of
Notwithstanding the section of the bill of rights in the constitutions of 1817 and 1832 providing for the right to “a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the county where the offense was committed,” the court in Alfred v. State, 37 Miss., 296, sustained an act not only dividing a county into two judicial districts, for which there was no express warrant in these
Affirmed.
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- 1. Counties. Injunctions. Dissolution. Damages. Solicitor's fees. Solicitors’ fees are allowable as damages upon the dissolution of an injunction restraining the board of supervisors of a county from removing a comny seat. 2. Board op Supervisors. Judgments. Collateral attack. Defects in the proceedings and judgments of a board of supervisors, not jurisdictional in their nature, are unavailing in a collateral proceeding to defeat the action of the board. 3. Same. Limited jurisdiction. What record to show. In matters in which the board of supervisors have limited jurisdiction its record must show jurisdictional facts, but need not set out the evidence thereof. 4. Same. Fraud. Corruption. Any judgment of the board of supervisors may be attacked on the ground of fraud or corruption when seasonably set up and pleaded. 5. Legislature. Power. Constitutional laws. The legislature has all political power not denied it by the state or national constitution. 6. Constitution 1890, Sec. 260. Laws 1902, p 172. Seat of justice of coivnty. Judicial district. Laws 1902, p. 172, providing for an election to determine the question of tne removal of the seat of justice of the first judicial ^ district of Perry county, is not violative of nor affected by Constitution 1890, sec. 260, prohibiting the change of the boundaries of county judicial districts except as therein specified. 7. Same. Constitution 1890, gee. 259. Constitution 1890, sec. 259, providing that no county seat shall be removed unless authorized by two-thirds of the electors voting therefor, but that where the removal is towards the center of the county it may be made if a majority of the electors voting shall vote therefor, most probably has no application to an act, like Laws 1902, p. 172, providing for an election to determine the question of removal of a seat of justice of one of the judicial districts of a county having two such districts; but, if applicable, it requires a two-thirds vote, unless the removal be towards the center of the district, in which case a majority vote is sufficient. 8. Same. Constitution 1890, secs. 152, 259, 260. New counties. Judicial districts. County seats. The subject of legislative power to create new counties, divide counties into judicial districts, and remove seats of justice of such districts discussed.