Legal Opinion
Moses v. Kearney
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided November 15, 1876PublishedCited by 9 opinions
APPEAL from Conway Circuit Court. Hon. W. N. May, Circuit Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
Harrison, J.:
This was an application by Joshua Moses, and nineteen other residents and owners of lots, in tbe town of Springfield, in Conway County, for a mandamus to William Kearney, the Clerk of said county, to remove his office from Lewisburg back to Springfield, from whence he had moved it, and to keep it at the latter place.
Springfield had been the established seat of justice since 1852. It was located there in pursuance of the general law relating 'to county seats (Ch., 44, Gould’s Digest), then in force, which contained the following provision:
“Section 20. When the seat of justice of…
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