Legal Opinion
Yeilding v. State Ex Rel. Wilkinson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided April 4, 1936No. 6 Div. 887PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KNIGHT, Justice.
Proceedings in the nature of quo war-ranto instituted by the state of Alabama on relation of Horace C. Wilkinson, seeking to oxxst the appellants from the office of members of the personnel board of Jefferson county, Ala. This board was created by an act of the legislature of Alabama, approved August 28, 1935. General Acts of Legislature 1935, p. 691.
The title of the act, under which the respondents attempted to jxxstify their holding of said office, reads: “To create and establish in each County of the State of Alabama which has a population of 200,-000 or more people,…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- City of Trenton v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- Mayor of Baltimore v. State ex rel. Board of PoliceCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1860
- Ballentyne v. WickershamSupreme Court of Alabama · 1883
- Commonwealth v. PlaistedMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- State ex rel. Attorney-General v. CovingtonOhio Supreme Court · 1876
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3Cited by59 opinions
- Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdorySupreme Court of Alabama · 1944
- Reed v. BrunsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1988
- Dickerson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1982
- Knight v. West Alabama Environmental Improvement AuthoritySupreme Court of Alabama · 1971
- Alabama Ed. Ass'n v. BD. OF TRUSTEES, ETC.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1979
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