Patterson v. Temple
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL EROM SEBASTIAN CIRCUIT COURT. IIon. E. D. Ham, Circuit Judge. For more than four years previous to the year 1860, Greenwood wa's the county seat of Sebastian county, as it was for many years afterwards. By Section 20, Chapter 44, page 297, Gould’s Digest, county sites, established over four years, cannot be removed but upon paying inhabitants for their lots, etc. This is still in force by Article VI, Section 15, Constitution of Arkansas.
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APPEAL EROM SEBASTIAN CIRCUIT COURT. IIon. E. D. Ham, Circuit Judge. For more than four years previous to the year 1860, Greenwood wa's the county seat of Sebastian county, as it was for many years afterwards. By Section 20, Chapter 44, page 297, Gould’s Digest, county sites, established over four years, cannot be removed but upon paying inhabitants for their lots, etc. This is still in force by Article VI, Section 15, Constitution of Arkansas. In 1860, two Circuit Courts were established in Sebastian county, one to hold at Greenwood — county site — the other at Fort Smith. Acts of 1860, page…
1Opinion of the CourtBennett, J.
On the 17th day of April, 1871, Newton J. 'Temple, Prosecuting Attorney for the third judicial district, filed, in the Circuit Court of Sebastian county, .an application for a mandamus to compel "William Patterson, as Clerk of the various courts of said county* to omit removing any of the books, records, papers, etc., to Greenwood, in said county, as he was required to do, under the act of the General Assembly, approved March 28, 1871, alleging said act is void, because its various provisions are in violation of the Constitution of the United States.
Said application, also, alleging that Eort…
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