Daugherty v. Town of Mabscott

Kenna, Judge:

This declaratory judgment proceeding was brought in the Circuit Court of Raleigh County by J. S. Daugherty, Paige Cook, William L. Bower, William Ingram, Owen Miller, Earl Rogers and Kester Thompson contending that they had been elected and duly qualified as mayor, recorder and members of the common council of the Town of Mabscott respectively and that the present de facto incumbents, L. C. Simpson as mayor, A. Ray Fink as recorder and Lee Bower, L. D. Fink, J. B. Kirk, E. H. Loflin and Carl Wood as council members had unlawfully-refused to deliver to them the offices to which…