John v. Richter
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from CullmaB Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. D. W. Speake. F. E. St. Johns applied for a writ of certiorari to bring up for review and to quash an order of the probate court setting aside and annulling former orders made in that court calling an election and declaring the result against the sale of liquor in Cullman county.
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Appeal from CullmaB Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. D. W. Speake. F. E. St. Johns applied for a writ of certiorari to bring up for review and to quash an order of the probate court setting aside and annulling former orders made in that court calling an election and declaring the result against the sale of liquor in Cullman county. Before return was made to the writ of certiorari and before any reason shown for not doing so, the court on motion of Richter, and others, quashed the writ and dismissed the certiorari. From this order the petitioner appeals. Reversed hut not remanded for reasons…
1Opinion of the CourtMayfield, J.
Appellant was one of a great number of resident citizens of Cullman county who signed and filed with the probate judge of that county a peti*658tion praying that the prohate judge call an election, in said county, to determine whether the sale of intoxicating liquors should be prohibited in that county, under the provisions of the local option statute of February 26, 1907, embraced in sections 492-511 of the Code of Alabama. The election was accordingly ordered by the probate judge, and was held in accordance with such order and the statute authorizing it, and resulted in a majority against the…
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