Haley v. Clark
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marion. Tried before the Hon. Alex. B. OlitheRALL. This was an application for a mandamus to the appellee, as county treasurer of Marion county, to compel him to pay to the petitioners (who were Allen Haley, John M. Frederick, John T. Sanders, and Willian Warren) the sum of $500, which he was directed to pay to them by the act of the Legislature, approved February 2, 1850, entitled “An act for the relief of the securities of John Douglass,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marion. Tried before the Hon. Alex. B. OlitheRALL. This was an application for a mandamus to the appellee, as county treasurer of Marion county, to compel him to pay to the petitioners (who were Allen Haley, John M. Frederick, John T. Sanders, and Willian Warren) the sum of $500, which he was directed to pay to them by the act of the Legislature, approved February 2, 1850, entitled “An act for the relief of the securities of John Douglass, late clerk of the Circuit Court of Marion county.” The petitioners allege that they have done everything required of them…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldthwaite, J.
—The appellants claim under a private-act (Acts 1849-50, p. 452), by the first section of which it is enacted “ that the treasurer of Marion county be, and he is hereby directed to pay Allen Haley, John M. Frederick, John T. Sanders, and William Warren, the securities of John Douglass, late clerk of the Circuit Court of Marion county, the sum of five hundred dollars, that being the amount of a fine which they have paid for said Douglass, in consequence of said Douglass having failed to'comply with the requisitions of the second section of the act of 1834.” The second section provides for the…
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