Georgia Reports Volume 84 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... overruled. On the trial, Hillsman testified for the applicants: He and all the parties reside within the territory desired to be cut ofl from the 948th district and added to the 710th. Applicants are, with one exception, all the parties who reside within that territory. It is necessary and expedient to make the change, because the territory desired to be cut off is timberless, is in the extreme southwest corner of the 948th district, and the voters in that territory would have to go but from two to two and a half miles further to reach the precinct after the change than before. The territory to be changed is about four or five miles across. The diagram attached to the petition is correct, and shows the proposed line. He has seen all the parties in the territory to be cut off and all but one were willing and anxious for the change. There is a fence along the proposed line that, with very little work, could be made a lawful fence. Several of those who signed the counter-petition live six or seven miles from the proposed line and some of them out of the district, and but few of those who signed it own either stock or land. For the objectors three witnesses testified. One of them saw some of the parties sign the counter-petition and others told him to sign their names. About twentyseven of the counter-petitioners would be either on the proposed line or within one and a half miles of it, seventeen being land-owuers or stock-owners, and would be inconvenienced by the change, as they had no pastures built, and it was then the first of February and there was no time to build them. He did not know whether all the parties whose names were on the petition lived in the 948th district, but thought they did. There would be a strip of land between the...