Brock v. Foree

delivered tlie opinion of tlie Court.

By tlie supplemental bill complainant, who is the jail physician for McMinn county, questions the jurisdiction of the county court of that county to remove him upon charges of “inefficiency, incompetency, and gross and extreme extravagance and waste of the County funds, and his inability to properly perform the office of Jail Physician. ’ ’

The defendants demurred to the bill upon the ground that the county court had such authority. The chancellor sustained the demurrer and dismissed the bill.

The involved provisions of the Code are as follows:

5778. “It…