State ex rel. Laughlin v. Porter

The prosecuting attorney in and for the Forty-ninth Judicial Circuit commenced this proceeding *80by filing an information in the nature of a quo warranto, in the office of the clerk of the Martin Circuit Court. It was formally charged that’the defendant, William T. Porter, had unlawfully usurped and intruded into the office of county superintendent in and for the county of Martin, and that he was exercising the functions of the office without authority of law.

Upon due request the court made a special finding of the facts, which, so far as they are material to be stated, are as follows: On the…