Bynum v. Roach

Petitioners John T. Roach, Jr., and The Legal Center, Inc.1, ask this Court to issue a writ of mandamus or alternatively a writ of prohibition against the Honorable William C. Barber, Judge of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County.

After remand by this Court of the cause in Roach v. Bynum, 403 So.2d 187 (Ala.1981), Frank K. Bynum and James D. Forstman gave notice to Roach of a shareholders’ meeting of The Legal Center, Inc. Roach promptly issued himself 500 shares of Legal Center stock, purporting to make himself majority stockholder.2 After the meeting, Roach refused to acknowledge the new…