Slaughter v. Harper

Mr. Judge CRITZ

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.

The above two applications for mandamus are filed in this court as two separate causes and under two separate numbers, but they involve, in the main, the same original transactions. Both cases were submitted and argued together, and we therefore dispose of both in the same opinion. In fact, this is the only way they can be intelligently considered. The above motion for writ of prohibition is filed by interveners, C. C. Slaughter Company, et al., and will also be discussed with the two main cases.

It appears from the…