Torcaso v. Watkins, Clerk

This appeal is from an order of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County dismissing a petition for mandamus against the Clerk of that court, after a demurrer to the petition had been sustained. The petition alleged, and the demurrer admitted, that the appellant, a citizen of the United States and a resident of Montgomery County for more than two years past, had been duly appointed by the Governor a notary public in and for that County, but when he went to the Clerk’s office to obtain his commission and qualify for the office, the Clerk requested him to take and subscribe to a certain oath and…