Edmondson v. Ledbetter
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Probate Court of Calhoun. Heard before the Hon. Emmett F. Crook. The proceedings in this case were had upon a petition being filed by appellees, addressed to the judge of .probate of Calhoun county, asking for an order establishing a stock law district in said county.
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Appeal from the Probate Court of Calhoun. Heard before the Hon. Emmett F. Crook. The proceedings in this case were had upon a petition being filed by appellees, addressed to the judge of .probate of Calhoun county, asking for an order establishing a stock law district in said county. The petition was as follows: “The undersigned land owners and freeholders'respectfully petition and represent unto your honor that they are each over the age of twenty-one years, and each resides within the State and county above named, and within the district hereinafter described by metes and bounds, or own and…
1Opinion of the Court
McCLELLAN, J. —
The act of February 18, 1895, “To authorize and direct the judge of the probate court of Calhoun county to establish districts in said county in which stock may be prevented from running at large, and to regulate such districts,” (Acts 1894-95, pp. 1066-1078), is not open to any of the objections made by counsel for appellants to its ' constitutionality. — McGraw v. Commissioners, 89 Ala. 407.
The question before the probate judge at the hearing was whether a majority of land owners in the proposed district, over the age of twenty-one years, was in favor of or against the…
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