Kidd v. Nelson

Hawkins, Justice.

Five named persons, as “residents, citizens, qualified voters, and taxpayers of Baldwin County,” filed a petition for quo warranto in Baldwin Superior Court, on April 13, 1957, contending that a local act of 1956 (Ga. L. 1956, p. 2725) was approved by the voters of Baldwin County at a referendum election held on April 3, 1956, and that by the terms of said act the then existing Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues was abolished as of January 1, 1957, and that the terms of all members expired by operation of law on the same day. The relators, who are now plaintiffs in…