Persons v. Summers

MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a decree granting a permanent injunction against appellant, the Recorder of the City of Prichard.

Appellees are in the bail bond business in Prichard and they filed their bill against appellant in his official capacity as recorder, charging that appellant was discriminating against them and favoring their competitors. Of the 1308 bonds made by professional bondsmen in Recorder’s Court in Prichard from July through December, 1961, appellees were sureties on 930, and their competitors were sureties on 378 bonds.

The bill sought a mandatory injunction directed…