Wilkinson v. Stiles
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; C. B. Smith, Judge. Proceeding by Horace C. Wilkinson against J. P. Stiles, as Judge. ■ From the decree rendered, petitioner appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, C. J.
The petitioner seeks to have the respondent, Stiles, receive, examine and certify as to a petition for holding an election for the purpose of abandoning the commission form of government in the city of Birmingham. The only authority for such action on the part of the respondent must come from the act of 1915, p. 770, and as the same expressly provides that it shall not apply to cities having a population of 35,000 or more, and as Birmingham belongs to said excepted class, the respondent had no lawful right to act upon the petition in the manner as sought by petitioner and properly declined to…
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