Revenue & Road Commissioners v. State ex rel. Campbell
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court. Heard before I-Ion. Samuel B. Browne. Mandamus on the relation of Douglas G. Campbell, against the revenue and road commissioners of Mobile county, to require them to fix a fair salary for him as county physician under an election by the county board of health. The court granted a peremptory writ, and the respondents appeal.
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Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court. Heard before I-Ion. Samuel B. Browne. Mandamus on the relation of Douglas G. Campbell, against the revenue and road commissioners of Mobile county, to require them to fix a fair salary for him as county physician under an election by the county board of health. The court granted a peremptory writ, and the respondents appeal. Whatever validity the law under consideration may have, is derived from its original enactment, and not from its introduction or manner of introduction into the Code. — B. & P. Sup. Co. v. Libcas, 1Í9- Ala. 202; State ex rel. Birmingham…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
This appeal is from a judgment of the circuit court granting a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the revenue and road commissioners of Mobile county to fix a fair salary for Douglas G. Campbell, who has been by the board of health of said county elected as physician to attend the inmates ■ of the poorhouse and jail of said county.
On the 21st day of December, 1908, the petition of the board of health was presented to said revenue and road commissioners, praying the fixing of said salary. Previous thereto, to wit, on November 16, 1908, said revenue and road commissioners had elected W. G.…
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