Couk v. Skeen

The object of this proceeding is to prohibit the respondent, as judge of the Circuit Court of Lee county, from issuing any order calling a special election in the county of Lee on the question of the removal of the court-house of said county from Jonesville to Pennington Gap, in said county, pursuant to the prayer of certain petitions presented to the respondent, as authorized by the act of the General Assembly approved March 14, 1908 (Acts 1908, p. 594), entitled, “An act to provide for submitting the question of the removal of the court-house of any county to the qualified voters of such…