Wallace v. Wallace

Cornelia Ellis Wallace, the respondent and cross-complainant in a divorce action pending in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, has petitioned this court to issue its Writ of Mandamus to the Honorable John W. Davis, III, as circuit judge, sitting in the pending case, requiring him to (1) recuse himself from presiding as judge in said case and (2) requiring him to henceforth hear all matters in said case in open court with free access to the public.

After answer of complainant George C. Wallace and Judge Davis and replications thereto, the petition was heard orally by this court on November…