Davidson v. Lewis

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

— Granting writ.

This is an original suit filed in this court by M. Y. Davidson, suing for himself and all other citizens and taxpayers of Leslie County, seeking a mandamus against the Hon. L. D. Lewis, Judge of the 33rd Judicial District, and of the Leslie Circuit Court, to require him to enter certain judgments described in the petition. The case comes up to be heard and disposed of on a general demurrer to the answer of Judge Lewis.

The petition is in two paragraphs, and it appears from the first paragraph that in April, 1907, the Commonwealth, as…