Town of Sanford v. Hartley

STAKELY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the equity court holding a prior decree of the Probate Court of Covington County invalid. In order to determine the correctness of the ruling of the lower court we must consider the proceedings in the probate court to which' we have referred and the way in which the question is here presented.

In October, 1951, a number of citizens residing in an area which had formerly constituted the town of Sanford, a municipal corporation in Covington County, Alabama, instituted proceedings under § 16, Title 37, Code of 1940 to have the corporate charter…