O'Shields v. Caldwell

Mr. Acting Associate Justice E. H. Henderson

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from an order of Circuit Judge Steve C. Griffith, in which he refused the plaintiffs’ motion for a change of venue of the action. The motion was made upon the grounds that the plaintiffs could not obtain a fair and impartial trial in Union County, and that there is reason so to believe. Code, sections 35 and 426 (2).

The case has been here once before. 35 S. E. (2d), 184. It was then determined that the Union County act of March 11, 1943, 43 Stat., 1088, authorizing the paying out of…