Hodges v. Hamblen County

The county of Hamblen is entitled to eighteen magistrates, and this number were duly elected and qualified prior to the meeting of the regular session of the quarterly court of that county on the first Monday in January, 1925. Eight of these magistrates absented themselves from the January term of the quarterly court, and refused to participate in the deliberations of that body. It seems that differences had arisen between these eight magistrates and the others about certain matters to come before the court, and the eight magistrates organized this filibuster by way of breaking a quorum.

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