Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Wilkinson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided November 21, 1929No. 6 Div. 470PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOULDIN,- J.
The writ of prohibition is supervisory in character — one employed to effectuate the supervisory power vested in this court by the Constitution over inferior jurisdictions. Const. 1901, § 140. It is not granted except for usurpation or abuse of power.
Usurpation involves the attempted exercise of power not possessed by the inferior officer, or what is the same thing, going beyond or exceeding the power vested in him.
If the proceeding sought to be prohibited is not within itself a usurpation or abuse of power, the writ will not issue on a mere assumption that abuse may intervene in…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Tinsley v. AndersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Fearn v. WardSupreme Court of Alabama · 1886
- Ex parte HamiltonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1874
- Ex Parte JohnsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1919
- Kimball v. Cunningham Hardware Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1915
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3Cited by19 opinions
- King v. KeithSupreme Court of Alabama · 1952
- Turnipseed v. BlanSupreme Court of Alabama · 1933
- Strother v. McCordSupreme Court of Alabama · 1931
- J. Blach & Sons, Inc. v. HawkinsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1939
- Hammond v. BibbSupreme Court of Alabama · 1937
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