Ashcroft v. Goodman
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY Appeal from the Circuit Court of Shelby County to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court. — • H. W. McLaughlin and J. P. Young, Judges.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
Application in each of these causes is made by petitioners to the court in session for writs of certio-rari and supersedeas to review, reverse, and stay the execution of decrees of the court of civil appeals, ruling that Goodman and McLain had been illegally deprived of their offices as members of the hoard of commissioners of the city of Memphis, the governing body of that municipality, and directing that writs of .restitution issue to put them in possession of their respective offices.
An effort to deprive these defendants of their offices was made by the other members of the hoard of…
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