Ex parte Turner
Supreme Court of Arkansas
WRIT OF CERTIORARI to Bradley Circuit Court. Hon. J. M. Bradley, Circuit Judge. The order of the Circuit Court directing the County Court to make a contract and build a Court room, &c., was clearly beyond its jurisdiction and void.
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WRIT OF CERTIORARI to Bradley Circuit Court. Hon. J. M. Bradley, Circuit Judge. The order of the Circuit Court directing the County Court to make a contract and build a Court room, &c., was clearly beyond its jurisdiction and void. Art. 7, Sec. 28, Const. 1874; Russell, et al. v. Jacoway, 33 Ark., 191. Even the County Court could not make a contract unless an appropriation had first been made- Worthen v. Roots, 34 Ark., 356. The order being void, the contempt proceeding falls with it. Gantt’s Digest, Section 818, makes wilful disobedience of any process or order lawfully made, &c., a…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
The grand jury of Bradley county, at March term, 1883, condemned the Court House of that county as unsafe. Thereupon the Circuit Court directed the County Court to provide new quarters for the Clerk and Sheriff, and to make an appropriation and proceed to advertise and let out the contract for building another Court House. The Quorum Court, consisting of the County Judge and a majority of the Justices of the Peace of the county, sat in July, but made no appropriation for these purposes. The Circuit Court at its next term caused the County Judge to be brought before it under process for…
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