Forbes v. Bell

OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Justice.

This is an election contest arising out of the August 1990 race between Jane B. Forbes and Henry Denmark Bell for the position of Circuit Court Judge in the Twenty-First Judicial District of Tennessee, comprised of Williamson, Hickman, Perry, and Lewis Counties. Forbes filed her complaint and an amended complaint within ten days after the election, as required by T.C.A. § 2-17-105. The trial court denied Forbes’s motion to file a second amended complaint outside the statutory ten-day period and dismissed the first two complaints for failure to state a cause of action…