Taylor v. Jones
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Walker County ; J. J. Curtis, Judge. Petition by W. J. Jones against James Taylor and others, constituting the Commissioners’ Court of Walker County, praying that a former order, rendered at a trial term on petition for certiorari, quashing the proceedings of the Commissioners’ Court establishing a stock law district, be set aside. From the judgment or order denying the petition, petitioner appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Walker County ; J. J. Curtis, Judge. Petition by W. J. Jones against James Taylor and others, constituting the Commissioners’ Court of Walker County, praying that a former order, rendered at a trial term on petition for certiorari, quashing the proceedings of the Commissioners’ Court establishing a stock law district, be set aside. From the judgment or order denying the petition, petitioner appeals. Transferred from the Court of Appeals under Act April 18, 1911, p. 449, § 6.
1Opinion of the CourtMayfield, J.
This is an unusual, if not an anomalous, proceeding. An election was held in beat 18, Walker county, under the general laws of this state, for the purpose of determining whether or not that beat should be declared a stock law district —that is, a district in which it should be unlawful for stock or domestic animals to run at large. By virtue of the election, and the order of the commissioners’ court, such a district was so established.
One Jones, appellee here, a resident of the district, filed in the circuit'court of Walker county a petition for certiorari to quash the proceedings in the…
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