Ex parte Selma & Gulf Railroad
Supreme Court of Alabama
At a former day of the term the court, on the petition and motion of the Selma & Gnlf Railroad Company, granted an alternative mandamus to the court &f county commissioners of Dallas county, commanding said court to subscribe $250,000 to tbe capital stock of the Selma & Gulf Railroad Company, and to issue bonds of said county in payment of such capital stock, &o., in accordance with the proposition of petitioner, submitted to said court, and the vote of the people of Dallas…
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At a former day of the term the court, on the petition and motion of the Selma & Gnlf Railroad Company, granted an alternative mandamus to the court &f county commissioners of Dallas county, commanding said court to subscribe $250,000 to tbe capital stock of the Selma & Gulf Railroad Company, and to issue bonds of said county in payment of such capital stock, &o., in accordance with the proposition of petitioner, submitted to said court, and the vote of the people of Dallas county, at an election ordered thereon, and held on the 6th day of August, 1870, or else show cause on the 6th day of…
1Opinion of the CourtPeck, C. J.
The return of the court of county commissioners of the county of Dallas to the alternative mandamus issued by this court, at a former day of this term, commanding Said court to subscribe two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the capital stock of the Selma & Gulf Bailroad Company, and issue the bonds of said county in payment of said capital stock, &o., or that they show cause why said subscription was not made, &c., shows two causes *243why said capital stock had not been subscribed according to the mandate of said writ.
1. It shows and states that the proposal of said railroad company to said…
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