Walton v. Greenwood
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Petition for a writ of prohibition against the county commissioners for this county. The petition is brought in the name of Sylvester J. Walton, ‘ attorney for the State for said county, for and in behalf of the county of Somerset,’ and alleges substantially, That in pursuance of an act entitled an ‘ Act to change the place of holding the supreme judicial court in the county of Somerset, and to change the shire town of Somerset county,’ passed on Feb. 15,…
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On exceptions. Petition for a writ of prohibition against the county commissioners for this county. The petition is brought in the name of Sylvester J. Walton, ‘ attorney for the State for said county, for and in behalf of the county of Somerset,’ and alleges substantially, That in pursuance of an act entitled an ‘ Act to change the place of holding the supreme judicial court in the county of Somerset, and to change the shire town of Somerset county,’ passed on Feb. 15, 1872, the county commissioners met at Skowhegan, on March 1st, to examine rooms prepared for the court and officers, all…
1Opinion of the CourtBarrows, J.
Obviously there are insuperable technical objections to the maintenance of this process, which seems throughout to have been irregular and inapplicable to the case as stated by the petitioner.
*363The prayer of the petition is, ‘ that a writ of prohibition may issue to said court of county commissioners (meaning the respondents), prohibiting them from causing the records and files in the various county offices in Somerset county to be removed to Skowhegan, and from causing notice of that fact to be published in certain news papers, as provided in § 4 of an act of the legislature approved Feb. 15,…
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