HORNSBY v. SESSIONS

1950376.

703 So.2d 932 (1997)

Sonny HORNSBY v. Jeff SESSIONS, as attorney general of the State of Alabama; and Jimmy H. Baker, as acting director of the Department of Finance of the State of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 19, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Doyle Fuller, Montgomery, for appellant.

Bill Pryor, atty. gen., and William P. Gray, legal advisor to Governor Fob James, for appellee.


JOHN M. KARRH, Special Justice.2

E.C. "Sonny" Hornsby, former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, appeals the dismissal of an action in which he had sought a judgment declaring that he was holding the office of Chief Justice in a de jure capacity during the period following the expiration of his elective term, while no successor had been elected and qualified, and that during that period he had all the powers, rights, functions...

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