State ex rel. Sessions v. Hill

PER CURIAM..

Leroy Hill petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing Judge Braxton Kittrell of the Mobile Circuit Court to vacate his December 18, 1995, order staying all proceedings in the civil fraud action brought against Hill by the State of Alabama. In its complaint, the State alleged that Hill had fraudulently caused the State to sell him certain land at an undervalued price and then had harvested and sold the land’s timber crop for a large profit.

Hill purchased an 80-acre tract of land from the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation for $48,400 on August 25, 1998.…