Stephens v. Court Co. Com.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Cherokee Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. W. W. Haralson. Certiorari by L. B. Stephens and others against the Court of County Commissioners of Cherokee County to quash and annul an order creating stock law district. From an order denying their petition, petitioners, appeal.
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Appeal from Cherokee Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. W. W. Haralson. Certiorari by L. B. Stephens and others against the Court of County Commissioners of Cherokee County to quash and annul an order creating stock law district. From an order denying their petition, petitioners, appeal. The petition, as set out in Exhibit A, is as folloivs: “We, the undersigned, citizens of beat 8, will ask the commissioners’ court to grant a stock law. election in said beat” — and is signed by a number of persons. The order of the commissioners’ court is that certain persons, naming them, bona fide…
1Opinion of the Court
McCLELLAN, j.
This is an appeal from the judgment of the circuit court, overruling and dismissing the petition for common-law writ of certiorari to quash an order of the commissioners’ court of Cherokee county establishing a stock law district in precinct 8 of the county.
While the petition for the stock law election in question did not conform to the requirements of the law (Acts Sp. Sess. 1909, pp. 121, 125), yet the order of the commissioners’ court, predicated upon these petitions, affirmatively found and adjudged that every jurisdictional requirement of that law existed, and on that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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