Chapman v. Walden

Bussell, Chief Justice.

Walden, as a citizen and taxpayer of the City of Dublin, filed a petition in the nature of a quo warranto. He alleged that Chapman was then acting as mayor of the City of Dublin and exercising the functions of that office; that Chapman had been elected mayor in 1933 and served as such during the years 1934 and 1935; that Chapman offered himself as a candidate and received a majority of the votes cast in the election for the office of mayor, despite a provision in an act of the General Assembly of 1911 “That no one shall be eligible to fill the mayor’s office of the City…