Attaway v. Melton

MOISE, Justice..Plaintiffs, Mrs. Earl Bostwick Attaway, Otis E. Pharr, Joyce Pharr, John E. Hayr good and Janice R. Haygood, filed suit to be recognized as officers of the Sterling Service Life Insurance Company and to restrain the named defendants from interfering with their work. The trial judge rendered judgment in favor of plaintiffs, making their rule absolute.

Defendants appealed to this Court and filed an exception of no right or cause of action. They also contended that plaintiffs should have proceeded by mandamus and quo warranto.

To this appeal plaintiffs filed a motion to dismiss,…