Cheney v. Ragan
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petitions for injunction, and for mandamus. Before Judge R. C. Bell. Calhoun superior court. March 8, 1921. Cheney and others filed their petition seeking an injunction which would restrain the defendants from holding a special election involving the removal of the court-house from Morgan, Calhoun County, Georgia, to the town of Edison in that county, and from consolidating the returns for that special election; petitioners con-i ending that the proceedings preliminary to…
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Petitions for injunction, and for mandamus. Before Judge R. C. Bell. Calhoun superior court. March 8, 1921. Cheney and others filed their petition seeking an injunction which would restrain the defendants from holding a special election involving the removal of the court-house from Morgan, Calhoun County, Georgia, to the town of Edison in that county, and from consolidating the returns for that special election; petitioners con-i ending that the proceedings preliminary to the election were void for the reasons pointed out in the petition, that the petitions calling for the election under the…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, P. J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) As these cases were argued together they are decided together, as each of them involves one question which is the principal question in each of the cases; and where any one of the three cases involves a distinct question that must be decided, that will be indicated by special reference to the case in which the question is raised.
1. The legality of the election to determine whether there should be a removal of the court-house of Calhoun County or not is brought in question in each of these three cases. Certain subsidiary questions are also raised, the…
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