Ex parte Miller

MERRILL, Justice.

Petitioner filed his original petition in this court for an alternative writ of mandamus, naming Honorable J. Edgar Bowron Presiding Judge of the Circuit Court for the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama, as respondent. The petition claims that respondent was in error when, ex mero motu, he consolidated petitioner’s municipal improvement assessment appeal with another such appeal, and when he also denied petitioner’s motion to set aside the order of consolidation.

Upon presentation of the petition, and after oral hearing, this court issued to respondent its rule nisi ordering…