State v. Hopkins

Terry, J.:

At the March Term Warren W. Buckingham, the relator herein, presented his petition praying that a peremptory writ of mandamus may issue out of this Court directed to Colonel C. Hopkins, C. Douglas Appleby, Allen R. Cruchley, and Purnal McWhorter, Jr., commanding each of them to forthwith permit, restore, and grant unto the relator the exercise of every power, privilege, right, duty, and authority which belongs to him as Mayor of “The Mayor and Council of Middletown,” according to the charter provisions, ordinances, and resolutions of said municipal corporation.

The essential…