Harkins v. Smith
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Fayette County; H. B. Foster, Judge. Petition by H. S. Harkins against J. Alex Smith and J. T. Maddox, as probate judges of their respective counties, to require them to appoint a member of the board of viewers for the Fayette and Lamar drainage district. From a decree sustaining demurrers to the petition, complainant appeals. No brief reached the reporter. No brief reached the reporter.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
This appeal is from the judgment of the circuit court of Fayette county- denying and dismissing an application of the appellant for the writ of mandamus, to require the judges of probate of Fayette and Lamar counties to exercise'the power vested in them by the act of March 4, 1915 (Acta 1915, pp. 167-192), to appoint a member of the board of viewers for “the Fayette and Lamar drainage district No. 1,” a drainage district formed and incorporated under the provisions of that act.
The case submitted to the circuit court was an agreed case, and the sole question submitted to and decided by the…
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