Polk v. James
Supreme Court of Georgia
Officers. County Matters. Mandamus'. Laws. Before Judge Harris. Douglas Superior Court. July Term, 1881. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Crawford, Justice.
Ezekiel Polk et al., commissioners of roads and revenues of the county of Douglas, petitioned the judge of the superior court for said county, to grant them a mandamus nisi against John C. Bowdon et al., who under an act of the general assembly of Georgia of October 17th, 1870, had been appointed commissioners to purchase a tract of land at the place selected for a county-site, to lay off the same into town lots, sell them, and to apply the proceeds to the building of a court-house and jail for the said county.
The petition sets forth that the land was bought, divided into…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Mayor of Savannah v. State ex rel. GreenSupreme Court of Georgia · 1848
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