State Ex Rel. Bassett v. Nelson

This is a quo warranto proceeding instituted on information in the name of the state by Gus Bassett and others, resident citizens of either the city of Decatur or the city of Albany, in Morgan county, Ala., against James A. Nelson, W. A. Britton, and Charles Sittason. It avers the respondents have recently usurped, intruded into, and are now unlawfully holding without authority- of law the offices of members of tbe board of commissioners of tbe city of Decatur, in Morgan county, Ala., and are exercising without authority of law the powers and authority of the governing board of the city, and…