Wallace v. State

This is an appeal from an order entered by the Jefferson Probate Court denying appellants' petition to incorporate Center Point, Alabama, pursuant to Code of 1975, § 11-41-1.

Appellants are inhabitants of the unincorporated community of Center Point; they petitioned the probate court under § 11-41-1 seeking an order incorporating Center Point as a municipal corporation. By the last paragraph of their petition, appellants purported to challenge the constitutionality of §11-41-1: "By filing this Petition to Incorporate a Municipality, the Petitioners are hereby challenging the constitutionality…