Foster v. Jones
Supreme Court of Virginia
Upon petition of Hon. John D. Foster for a mandamus to compel J. H. O. Jones to deliver up to him the office of judge of the county court of King & Queen county.
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Upon petition of Hon. John D. Foster for a mandamus to compel J. H. O. Jones to deliver up to him the office of judge of the county court of King & Queen county. Foster was duly commissioned January 31, 1880, judge of the county courts of King & Queen and King William counties for the term .prescribed by law, and qualified as such, and continued to discharge the duties until February 7th, 1884, when Jones assumed the office, claiming that by an act approved January 18th, 1884, the general assembly had made the county of King & Queen a separate judicial district, and had on 24th J anuary,…
1Opinion of the CourtHinton, J.
This is an application on the part of the Hon. John D. Foster' to this court for a writ of peremptory mandamus to compel the restoration to the petitioner of the office of county judge of the county of King & Queen, which he claims is now usurped and withheld from him by the Hon. J. H. C. Jones. The petition sets out, that in January, 1880, the Hon. John D. Foster was elected and commissioned as judge of the counties of King & Queen and King William, which then formed what was known as district Ho. 41, and proceeded to discharge, and was discharging, the duties of his said office on the 7th…
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