Smith v. Kelley

Benjamin M. Smith and Christopher B. Garnett filed in this court their original petition for mandamus, alleging that pursuant to chapter 167, Acts of 1930 (Code 1930, section 2773 (10) et seq.), Arlington county had duly adopted the “county manager” plan of organization and government; that the voters of the county as authorized by that act duly elected a county hoard of five members chosen from the county at large who qualified on January 1, 1932, for a term of four years; that two of these members —one on June 1, 1933, and . the other on December 11, 1933—tendered their resignations to the…