Tillman v. Thrasher

Jackson, Justice.

Joseph Tillman, the proprietor of the Quitman Reporter, made application to the superior court of Brooks county, for a mandamus nisi against the sheriff of that county, to show cause why he should not publish his official advertisements in that newspaper, on the ground that when he changed it to the Free Press, another newspaper in Brooks county, he had not given notice of the contemplated change in the Quitman Reporter. The judge refused the mandamus nisi, and this is the error complained of.

While §3650 of the Code does require the notice to be given, we think that the…