Sadler v. Langham
Supreme Court of Alabama
These two cases were argued and submitted separately. The former was brought up by appeal from the circuit court of Greene, and was there tried before the Hon. JOHN Gill Shoetee; the latter was an appeal from the probate court of Lauderdale.
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These two cases were argued and submitted separately. The former was brought up by appeal from the circuit court of Greene, and was there tried before the Hon. JOHN Gill Shoetee; the latter was an appeal from the probate court of Lauderdale. The material facts shown by the record in each case are as follows : At the regular November term, 1855, of the court of county commissioners for Greene county, Mitchell M. Langham and nineteen other citizens of the county presented their petition, asking the establishment of a private road, “leading from the Erie road north to the Hester road, on the…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
As the most material inquiry in each of these cases depends on the same questions, constitutional and statutory, we propose to consider them together. Justice R. W. Walker, being of counsel in one of the cases, does not sit in either.
In determining the nature of the intendments to be indulged in construing clauses of our written constitutions, the courts of the United States can derive but little aid from English decisions. This grows out of the fact, that with us, both the legislative and judicial departments are limited in their powers by the provisions of the local constitution ; while in…
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