Ex parte Birmingham & Atlantic Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Original writ in Supreme Court. Prohibition, on behalf of the Birmingham & Atlantic. Hallway Company, to restrain lion. John Pelham, individually and as judge of the seventh judicial circuit, from hearing and determining a cause pending' in the circuit court of St. Clair county, wherein one Spears was plaintiff and petitioner was defendant.
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Original writ in Supreme Court. Prohibition, on behalf of the Birmingham & Atlantic. Hallway Company, to restrain lion. John Pelham, individually and as judge of the seventh judicial circuit, from hearing and determining a cause pending' in the circuit court of St. Clair county, wherein one Spears was plaintiff and petitioner was defendant. The allegations are that Spears brought suit against the petitioner at Pell City, in St. Clair county, in the circuit court, that the same was set down for hearing on a certain day, and that witnesses had been summoned, etc.; that petitioner had protested…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
The issue in this case involves the validity of Ordinance No. 390 of the constitutional convention, providing for an additional court house in the counties of St. Olair and Shelby, respectively, as well as Local Acts 1903, pp. 28 and 539. The constitutional convention assembled under and by virtue of the act of the Legislature of 1901 (Acts 1900-01, p. 224) entitled “An act to provide for the holding of a convention, to revise and amend the Constitution of the State.” Section 22 of said act provides for the holding of an election for the ratification or rejection of the Constituoin. The…
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