State ex rel. Cummings v. Trewhitt
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM HAMILTON. Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Hamilton County. —T. M. McConnell, Chancellor. STATEMENT BY MB. JUSTICE NEIL. On the 21st day of April, 1899, the following statute was enacted by the-legislature of this State: ■ “An act to create the office of connty attorney of Hamilton county, and to prescribe the duties thereof.
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FROM HAMILTON. Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Hamilton County. —T. M. McConnell, Chancellor. STATEMENT BY MB. JUSTICE NEIL. On the 21st day of April, 1899, the following statute was enacted by the-legislature of this State: ■ “An act to create the office of connty attorney of Hamilton county, and to prescribe the duties thereof. “Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Tennessee, that there is hereby created the office of county attorney of Hamilton county. Said officer shall he elected by the quarterly county court of Hamilton county at its January term for a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Neil
A careful examination of the act of 1903 (Acts 1903, p. 1536, c. 576) discloses two purposes:' One, that the office of county attorney of Hamilton county shall be enlarged from a one-year term to a two-year term, and that this latter term shall begin on the first Monday of January, 1905, when the first election under that act Shall take place; the other, that the interval of one year between the close of the then incumbent’s term, under the act as it stood before amendment, and the beginning *566of the new two'-year term, shall be held by the incumbent elected under the said original act. Acts…
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