Hawkins v. Roberts & Son
Supreme Court of Alabama
Aiteals from tbe City Court of Birmingham. Hoard before tlie Hon. W. W. Wilkerson. Those two causes, involving the same legal questions, wore submitted together. The first suit brought ivas that of Roberts & Son v. Kenneth F. Hawkins, county treasurer of Jefferson county.
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Aiteals from tbe City Court of Birmingham. Hoard before tlie Hon. W. W. Wilkerson. Those two causes, involving the same legal questions, wore submitted together. The first suit brought ivas that of Roberts & Son v. Kenneth F. Hawkins, county treasurer of Jefferson county. Roberts & Son, a corporation, filed a petition, asking for a mandamus to compel the defendant, K. F. Hawkins, as county treasurer of defferson county, to pay a ivarrant issued to said Roberts & Son by the Board of Revenue of said county. The petition alleged that said Hawkins declined to pay such warrant, solely on the…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
— It is admitted on both sides,.that the question presented to us for review in each of the above entitled causes, is the constitutionality of the act, approved February 18, 1899, entitled “An act, to establish a Board of Revenue for Jefferson County and for tiie abolishment of the Court of County Commissioners of said county.”
We allow the appellants to state their objections to the constitutionality of said act, in their own language, as we find them in their brief on file.
1. “That it violates Art. VII, particularly section 3 thereof of the Constitution of the State of Alabama, in that, if…
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