In Re Liquidation of Brinkerhoff-Faris Trust Savs.

CONKLING, J.. In these proceedings, instituted by motion in the Circuit Court of Henry County, appellants challenged the authority of Judge Leslie A. Bruce, then judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, which did not include Henry County, to preside as special judge in the Henry County Circuit Court throughout the liquidation of the Brinkerhoff-Faris Trust and Savings Company. The court below found the issues against appellants npon the merits of the motion attacking the authority of Judge Bruce to act as judge in the case, and appellants have appealed.

Appellants, who were petitioners and…