Stone v. State Ex Rel. Laurendine

On the 11th day of October, 1928, the appellee, petitioner in the court below, filed his petition for mandamus against George E. Stone, as treasurer of Mobile county, Ala., seeking to compel him to receive, number, and register a certain county warrant given in payment of the purchase price for a certain right of way, for highway purposes, over the lands of petitioner, and to pay same when in funds.

The petition filed was in all respects regular and in conformity with our statute (section 8978 of the Code 1923), and contained a brief statement of the jurisdictional facts, briefly and…