Dotson v. Commonwealth

The Commonwealth’s attorney of Dickenson county filed a petition in the circuit court of that county praying that a writ of quo warranto be awarded in the name of the Commonwealth against Joe G. Dotson, the appellant, to remove him from office as a member of the Board of Supervisors from Kennedy Magisterial District. The petition alleged that Dotson had been duly elected to that office on November 4, 1947, had qualified and performed his duties but had since moved his residence to Coebum, in Wise county, and that hence the office should be declared vacant as provided by section 15-488 of the…