Parks v. Ash

W. L. Ash brought quo warranto proceedings to test the right of EL F. Parks to hold office as a member of the board of commissioners of roads and revenues of Lumpkin County, and, as the ground of such proceedings, contended that Parks was ineligible to a place on the board, because he had1 served as a member of the board of county tax-assessprs up to March 12, 1928, and was therefore ineligible to hold any other county office for one year thereafter. Parks filed a response in which, among other grounds of resistance to the proceedings, he insisted that the law declaring one ineligible to hold…