State ex rel. Gunter v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. Horace Stringfellow, Special Judge. Information in the nature of quo warranto by the state of Alabama on the relation of W. A. Gunter and others, against J. A. Thompson and others, acting as a Bo'ard of Public Safety for the City of Montgomery. Judgment for respondents and relators appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
Appellees are exercising authority as a board of public safety for the city of Montgomery by virtue of an act entitled: “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to provide and create a commission form of municipal government and to establish same in all cities of Alabama which now have or which may hereafter have a population of as much as twenty-five thousand and less than fifty thousand people, according to the last federal census, or any such census which may hereafter be taken; to regulate the .selection and election of commissioners and their terms of office and recall from office, to…
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