Hutto v. Walker County
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Walker Probate Court. Heard before Hon. Norman Gunn, Special Judge. Stock law election contest by R. M. Hutto and others against Walker County. From a decree dismissing the petition, petitioners appeal. The election was held in beat 9 of Walker county on February 26,-1913, at which the proposition for prohibiting stock at large was affirmatively carried by a majority of one vote according to tbe official return.
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Appeal from Walker Probate Court. Heard before Hon. Norman Gunn, Special Judge. Stock law election contest by R. M. Hutto and others against Walker County. From a decree dismissing the petition, petitioners appeal. The election was held in beat 9 of Walker county on February 26,-1913, at which the proposition for prohibiting stock at large was affirmatively carried by a majority of one vote according to tbe official return. Peti-' tion was filed by the qualified electors of tbe beat and county named, and notice thereof was duly served upon J. D. Acuff, solicitor of tbe law and equity court of…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
The contest is filed under section 5887 of the Code of 1907, which is as follows: “Such election may be. contested on the same grounds and in the same manner before the probate judge as c.ontests of election of constable, and had before such probate judge, in the following manner: Any qualified elector of the precinct, or precincts, for which such election shall be held, may contest.the election by executing a bond with two sufficient sureties, to be approved by the judge of probate of the county for the payment of the costs of the contest. Notice of the contest shall be served on the circuit…
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