State Ex Rel. Holcombe v. Stone

FOSTER, Justice.

This cause was here on former appeal from judgment which sustained demurrer to the petition. 232 Ala. 16, 166 So. 602. There were only two questions considered: (1) Whether the remedy was appropriate; and (2) whether justices of the peace had jurisdiction to issue search warrants and try condemnation proceedings under the prohibition law of Alabama, although by a local law they otherwise only exercised civil jurisdiction. In those two respects the petition was held to be sufficient.

On the trial of the case on answer, the circuit court granted the prayer as to $2,646.15, but…