50 Ala. 424 | Ala. | 1874
The injunction was properly dissolved on the answer of .Price. Richards, the county treasurer, was merely a stakeholder, and had no personal interest in the matter in litigation, further than to know to whom to pay the salary, which he held for the person who might be found entitled to the office. Price was the defendant with whom the real merits of the case were contested. He claimed the office to which the salary was an incident, and rested his claim on an election by the people, and a commission from the governor. This gave him a primd fade right to the office. Ex parte Screws, at January term, 1873. He answered on oath, and on his own knowledge of the facts, and denied all the equities of the bill on which the injunction was granted. He denied that Colton was elected by the people, or that he was making any successful contest for the office claimed by both. Such an answer was sufficient to justify the dissolution of the injunction. In such a case, the answer of one defendant is sufficient. Y- v. Shep—, 44 Ala. 315 ; Long v. Brown, 4 Ala. 622; Dunlap v. Clements, 7 Ala. 539.
There is no error in the proceedings of the court below, which is pointed out in the assignments of error. The decree is