Shoaf v. Bringle

Appellants as citizens and taxpayers sought to intervene by petition pro interesse suo seeking to abate this suit.

The suit was commenced August 23, I960, as an election contest over the office of County Judge and has been before this Court, as will appear from Shoaf v. Bringle, 192 Tenn. 695, 241 S. W. (2d) 832 (June 1951).

There have been several continuances from term to term. In the fall of 1954 complainant sought to have the cause set for hearing, whereupon this petition was filed by twenty-odd taxpayers of the county, alleging that two *528elections had already passed, that any special…