Stone v. State ex rel. J. S. Walton & Co.

STAKE’LY, Justice.

' Appellee, State of Alabama ex rel. J. S. Walton & Co., a partnership composed of Norman Walton and J. S. Walton, Jr., filed in the Circuit Court of Mobile County a petition for writ of mandamus addressed to the appellant, George E. Stone, as Treasurer of Mobile County, Alabama, praying for an alternative writ of mandamus directing him as such treasurer forthwith to register and pay a warrant drawn in favor of the appellee by the Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners of Mobile County, Alabama.

Upon trial of the cause the court entered a final decree granting the writ of…