Mott v. Board of Commissioners of Forsyth County
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ApplicatioN POR Mandamus by the Solicitor of the Ninth Judicial District to require the Board of Commissioners of Forsyth County to draw a grand jury for the Superior Court, heard before Starbuclc, J., at Chambers in Winston, January 11, 1900. Application refused, and plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK and MONTGOMERY, JJ., dissent. It is admitted that the relator Mott was elected solicitor of the Superior Courts of the Ninth Judicial District in November, 1898, for a term of four years; was regularly inducted into that office; that said term of office has not expired, and that the county of Forsyth is one of the counties composing the Ninth Judicial District.
It is also alleged and admitted, that the defendants are the county commissioners of Forsyth County, and that they have not drawn a grand jury for the Superior Court of that county since February, 1899, and while they say that the…
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