State ex rel. Leech v. Wright

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

Plaintiffs, eleven citizens of Lincoln County and the State Attorney General, appeal from an adverse decree of the trial court, following a non-jury trial of this suit brought to oust defendant, Grady Wright, from the office of Road Superintendent of Lincoln County.

The thrust of plaintiffs’ appeal is that the proof adduced at trial required a finding of wilful misconduct in office, and, that the trial judge made a number of erroneous rulings that had the effect of limiting their discovery and proof at trial; that plaintiffs are entitled to a judgment of ouster by this…