47 So. 209 | Ala. | 1908
The first question presented by the record is, assuming that the officer taking the acknowledgment was, at the time it was taken, mayor of the city
The next question presented is whether the certificate of acknowledgment to the deed’is invalid because of the omission to state the name of the city or town of Avhich the officer purporting to take it was mayor. It will be observed that the form prescribed for the acknowledgment (section 1802, Code of 1886; section 3361, Code o.f
We have been unable, in our research, to find any case in this jurisdiction that holds that our courts will’ take judicial notice of the various mayors of our cities, or one that holds the contrary. It has 'been held, however, that this court will take judicial cognizance of state, county, and federal officers, of less importance, notoriety, and dignity than the mayors of our larger cities. —Whitney v. Jasper Land Co., 119 Ala. 503, 24 South. 259. In many of them, the mayor, besides being the chief executive officer, is the presiding judge of the municipal court and trior of offenders against the ordinances of the city, and by virtue of being an ex officio justice of the peace tries offenders against the state laws. Such were the powers, of the mayor of Demopolis. Speaking to the subject' of judicial notice of domestic officials,
Reversed and remanded.