State Ex Rel. Sowell v. Greer

Appellant, the state, on the relation of J. R. Sowell, filed a petition in the nature of a quo warranto in the circuit court of Tate county against appellee, for the purpose of ousting the latter as one of1 the trustees of the Greenleaf consolidated school district of that county, and having Sowell declared the legally elected trustee of such school district in the place of appellee. Appellee demurred to the petition, which demurrer was sustained, and the petition dismissed. From that judgment appellant prosecutes this appeal.

The petition, leaving off' its formal parts, is in this language:

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