Commissioners v. Kenan

The plaintiff, alleging that he had held the office of solicitor-general of the Atlantic judicial circuit, embracing the counties of Bryan, -Effingham, Liberty, and McIntosh, from the first day of January, 1899, to the first day of January, 1907, brought a petition against the commissioners of McIntosh County, who, it was alleged, were charged with the duty of hiring out the misdemeanor convicts of said county and collecting and disbursing the funds received from the hire of such convicts; and prayed that a writ of mandamus issue, directed to the said commissioners, commanding and ordering…