State Ex Rel. Brooks v. Eblen

Chapter 18 of the Private Acts of 1905 created the office of county judge of Roane County. The act was amended by chapter 190 of the Private Acts of 1911 so as to grant extensive judicial authority to this judge. By the express terms of the act he is made the fiscal agent of the county; performs all the duties of the chairman of the quarterly court; is empowered to issue all extraordinary writs to the same extent as Chancellors and Circuit Judges.

The present suit was instituted upon relation of twenty-seven taxpayers of Roane County by the filing of the petition in Chancery making defendant…