State Ex Rel. Williams v. Cone

This is an original proceeding in Mandamus to compel the State Board of Pensions to place the name of the relator on the State Pension Roll, under the provision's of Chapter 19600, Acts of 1939. It is before us on motion to quash alternative writ.

The preamble to the legislative Act, supra, shows that the relator, Mrs. Eugenia Williams, was not at the time of the passage of the Act a widow of a Confederate Soldier (but was at the time a married woman) though it does show that she had at one time been the widow of a Confederate soldier, and the conclusion' is that she was during the time in…