Russell v. Jacoway

HarrisoN, J.:

This is an application by Thomas J. Russell and Jacob L. Shinn, for a Writ of Prohibition to the Circuit Court of Pope County, to restrain proceedings on a writ of certiorari sued out of it by William B. Young, and others, to the County Court of said county.

The facts upon which the application is made, as stated in the relator’s petition and admitted, are the following:

At the July term, 1878, of the County Court of said county, a petition, signed by one-third of the electors of the county, was presented for the removal of the county seat from Dover to Russellville, or Atkins, and…