Smith v. Stiles
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. E. H. Cabaniss, Special Judge. Mandamus by J. Q. Smith against J. P. Stiles, Judge of Probate of Jefferson County, Ala. From an order denying the writ, petitioner appeals. The petition seeks to require respondent to receive and file a statement from the petitioner to the effect that he had announced his candidacy for judge of the city court of Birmingham.
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Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. E. H. Cabaniss, Special Judge. Mandamus by J. Q. Smith against J. P. Stiles, Judge of Probate of Jefferson County, Ala. From an order denying the writ, petitioner appeals. The petition seeks to require respondent to receive and file a statement from the petitioner to the effect that he had announced his candidacy for judge of the city court of Birmingham. Respondent answers that he declined to receive and file the petition for the reason that the city court of Birmingham would be abolished under the consolidated court act approved August…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Anderson,
this case having been submitted and considered under new rule 46 (175 Ala., 65 South, vii).
(1-3) The title to the act of August 16, 1915 (Laws 1915, p. 279), known as the “Consolidated Court Law,” is as follows:' “To provide a circuit court in every county in the state, and for the consolidation of the chancery court and all other courts of record having the jurisdiction of the chancery court or circuit court or either of them into the circuit court, and to remove all pending causes and records into the circuit court, and to…
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