Parks v. State ex rel. Owens
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pike. Tried before the Hon. John R. Tyson. At the August election 1892, appellees and appellants were candidates for the following offices, to-wit., W. J. Hilliard and T. H. Brown were candidates and voted for, for the office of judge of probate of Pike county, Alabama; W. H. Parks and A. H. Owens were candidates and voted for, for judge of the Criminal Court of Pike county, Alabama; O. Worthy and Lucius Reeves were candidates and voted for,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pike. Tried before the Hon. John R. Tyson. At the August election 1892, appellees and appellants were candidates for the following offices, to-wit., W. J. Hilliard and T. H. Brown were candidates and voted for, for the office of judge of probate of Pike county, Alabama; W. H. Parks and A. H. Owens were candidates and voted for, for judge of the Criminal Court of Pike county, Alabama; O. Worthy and Lucius Reeves were candidates and voted for, for the office of clerk of the Circuit Court of Pike county, Alabama, and M. Y. Gibson and T. J. Allen were candidates…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
These four oases were by consent tried together in the Circuit Court, and, by like consent, were argued and submitted in this court as one case. The facts in each of the cases are substantially the same, and each and all of them are dependent on the same legal principles. They were informations in the nature of quo warramto, intended to test the correctness and legality of the declared result of the election of certain county officers of Pike county, who were voted for at the August election in 1892. They are proceedings under Ch. 14, Tit. 2, Part 3 of the Code of 1886, commencing with…
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