Thomas v. State

THOMAS, Justice.

The appeal challenges the sustaining of the state’s demurrer to the special plea to the jurisdiction of the Lawrence County Circuit Court. The plea was: “Comes the respondent/ Sam Thomas in his own proper person, for the sole purpose of pleading to the jurisdiction of this Court, and for plea says this action should be quashed and abated, because: The said supposed cause of action, if such have accrued to the said complainant, accrued to the said complainant in Morgan County, Alabama, where the property sought to be condemned was seized, and not in Lawrence County, Alabama, or…