Ex parte Campbell
Supreme Court of Alabama
The proceedings in this case were instituted by tlie petitioners, John A. Campbell, Thos. C. McKibbon and Henry O. Moss, filing an original application in the Supreme Court asking for the issuance of a mandamus.
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The proceedings in this case were instituted by tlie petitioners, John A. Campbell, Thos. C. McKibbon and Henry O. Moss, filing an original application in the Supreme Court asking for the issuance of a mandamus. It was averred in said petition that the petitioners had been duly and legally appointed a 'board of court house commissioners and charged with certain duties and invested with certain powers as such commissioners, under and by virtue of an act of the General Assembly of Alabama, approved March 5, 1901, entitled “An act to provide for the removal of the county seat of Shelby county…
1Opinion of the CourtTyson, J.
Manifestly, notwithstanding the petition of Longshore and others avers that these petitioners are usurping the office and powers as court house commissioners without authority of law, and prays upon final hearing that they be ousted from their pretended offices, it is a petition or application for a writ of prohibition against them from doing the several acts and *179things which they claim the right to do under and by virtue of a certain act of the General Assembly approved March 5, 1901.—Ex parte Roundtree, 51 Ala. 42. It is clearly not an action in the nature of a quo warranto. § 3417 et seq.…
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- Ex parte RoundtreeSupreme Court of Alabama · 1874
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