State v. Buck

At the threshold of this case we encounter a jurisdictional question which, if decided in favor of appellant, Buck, is determinative of the controversy.

The question is whether he was at the date of the filing of the hill a person holding an office of trust or profit under and by virtue of any of the *114laws of the State of Tennessee, within the meaning of chapter 11, Acts of 1915, commonly called the ‘ ‘ Cffister Act. ’ ’

Under pleadings which properly raise the question, the chancellor assumed jurisdiction of the cause, and rendered a final decree purporting to oust Buck from what the decree…