Section 12-16-3
Citizens of state, counties, cities, etc., not disqualified as interested in actions in which state, county, city, etc., a party or interested.
In actions to which the state, a county, a city or a town is a party or has an interest, citizens of the state, county, city or town are not disqualified by reason of interest.
(Code 1852, §2272; Code 1867, §2676; Code 1876, §3026; Code 1886, §2753; Code 1896, §2657; Code 1907, §4636; Code 1923, §8664; Code 1940, T. 30, §1.)