State ex rel. Davis v. Evans

This is a proceeding, in the nature of a quo warranto, to test the right of the defendant to hold the office of county superintendent of public schools for Claiborne county, holding over at the expiration of his regular term, which ended on the first Monday in January, 1909. The relator charges that on the day last mentioned he was regularly elected by the county court, the constituent body, to the office, by a vote of 12 in his favor to 7 in favor of the defendant, only nineteen justices being present and voting. He alleges that he was declared duly elected; that he gave the bond required by…