State of Tennessee Ex Rel Landle Byrge v. Nicholas Jay Yeager

OPINION

BRANDON 0. GIBSON, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which JOHN W. MCCLARTY, J., and THOMAS R. FRIERSON, II, J., joined.

The petitioners filed this action seeking to remove the respondent from the position of county law director of Anderson County pursuant to Tennessee’s ouster law, found at Tennessee Code Annotated section 8^47-101. The respondent filed a motion to dismiss, which the trial court granted after concluding that the position of county law director is not a public office subject to the ouster law. On appeal, the petitioners argue that the trial court erred in…