MacDougald v. Phillips

Hunt, Presiding Justice.

This is an appeal from the trial court’s grant of Phillips’ motion to dismiss this action for quo warranto, and award of attorney fees to the respondent. The trial court properly dismissed this action for quo warranto because Phillips — a professor and the department chairman of the criminal justice department of a state college, as well as the director of the Criminal Justice Institute at that college — does not hold office within the meaning of the quo warranto statutes. OCGA § 9-6-60 et seq. See generally McDuffie v. Perkerson, 178 Ga. 230 (173 SE 151) (1933).

Phillip…