Dunn v. Court of County Revenues
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Wilcox. Heard before the Hon. John, Moore. In the matter of the petition of Robert E. Dunn and F. M. Fletcher, addressed to the presiding judge of the fourth judicial circuit, for the writs of certiorari and supersedeas, addressed to the “Court of County Revenues of Wilcox county,” for the purpose of reviewing and quashing certain proceedings of said court declaring and establishing “Camden Beat” in said county as a stock district, within…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Wilcox. Heard before the Hon. John, Moore. In the matter of the petition of Robert E. Dunn and F. M. Fletcher, addressed to the presiding judge of the fourth judicial circuit, for the writs of certiorari and supersedeas, addressed to the “Court of County Revenues of Wilcox county,” for the purpose of reviewing and quashing certain proceedings of said court declaring and establishing “Camden Beat” in said county as a stock district, within which stock shall not be permitted to run at large. On the hearing of the petition, the presiding judge refused to grant…
1Opinion of the CourtSomlbville, J.
The only error assigned in the present case is the refusal of the judge of the fourth judicial circuit to issue the writ of certiorari to the Court of County Bevenues, as prayed for by the appellants in their petition to said judge. — Code, 1886, § 3616.
The purpose of the suit is to assail the constitutionality of the several acts of the Genóral Assembly authorizing the Court of County Bevenues of Wilcox county “to establish or abolish districts in which stock may be prevented from running at large.” — Acts 1880-81, p. 163; Acts 1884-85, pp. 531, and 560; Acts 1886 — 87, pp. 851, 923. '
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