Butler v. Amos

MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a decree in a declaratory judgment proceeding in equity filed by the plaintiff-appellant. The single question presented on this appeal is, by agreement of the parties made a part of the record, “limited to the legal issue as to whether or not the one year durational residence requirement within Alabama House District 17 as reapportioned and reconstituted by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama is applicable to plaintiff’s 1974 candidacy to the Alabama Legislature from House District 17.”

The trial court’s opinion stated that…