State ex rel. Driver v. Commissioners of Roads & Revenue of Talladega
Supreme Court of Alabama
Qüestíos is this case. Relative to mandamus, directing the establishment of a ferru. . In litis ense a relation was filed, in Talladega Circuit Court, in the name of the Stateyif Alabama, by Driver and others, praying a mandamtls to the Court of Commissioners of Revenue and Roads, of that County, to compel the- issuance of a license to the re-lators. lor a public ferry.
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Qüestíos is this case. Relative to mandamus, directing the establishment of a ferru. . In litis ense a relation was filed, in Talladega Circuit Court, in the name of the Stateyif Alabama, by Driver and others, praying a mandamtls to the Court of Commissioners of Revenue and Roads, of that County, to compel the- issuance of a license to the re-lators. lor a public ferry. The petition set out, that the. relators were the owners of a certain fraction of land, situate upon the easiern bank of the Coosa river; that ibero were two public roads in that, vicinity, one immediately on the upper, and…
1Opinion of the CourtHitchcock, C. J.
This is a writ of error from the Circuit Court of Talladega County, to a judgment of that Court, refusing to award a peremptory mandamus to the Commissioners of roads and revenue of ¿.aid County, directing them to grant, to the relators, a license for a public ferry, over the Coosa river, at the mouth of the Kernulgee creek, in said county.
The petition is filed in the name of the State, at, the relation of E. M. Driver and others, stating that the petitioners became the owners, in Jan’y, í S34, of a fraction of land, immediately upon the eastern shore of the Coosa river, embracing the eastern…
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