Williamson v. Russey
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Sevier Circuit Court. Wright Pricicett, Special Judge. H. C. Williamson and others, on January 4, 1904, filed a petition in the 'county court of Sevier County, asking that it make an order directing an election to be held for the purpose of voting upon the question whether or not the county seat of said county should be removed from Lockesburg to De Qugen.
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Appeal from Sevier Circuit Court. Wright Pricicett, Special Judge. H. C. Williamson and others, on January 4, 1904, filed a petition in the 'county court of Sevier County, asking that it make an order directing an election to be held for the purpose of voting upon the question whether or not the county seat of said county should be removed from Lockesburg to De Qugen. They offered, if the seat should be removed from De Queen, to donate a block of ground, of which they tendered an abstract of title, and they also deposited with the county treasurer $5,000 with which to build a new courthouse.…
1Opinion of the Court
Hiu,, C. J.
1. A petition for an election, on question of removal of the county seat, as provided in section 945, Sandels & Hill’s Digest, was presented to the county court of Sevier County. Twelve or fifteen petitions were printed from the same form, circulated throughout the county, and returned to the committeeman in charge of them, who had printed them. He detached the captions from all but one, and pasted the body of the other petitions to the one undetached from its caption, therebv bringing all the signatures under one caption, and that caption identical with the one under which the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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