Sitton v. Fulton

MATHERNE, Presiding Judge.

The issue at bar is whether the mayor of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, had the authority to summarily and unilaterally discharge the Director of the Department of Law of that government, with or without cause.

The chancellor held that the mayor had that authority and the discharged Director of the Department of Law (metropolitan attorney) appeals that decision to this Court, and he also insists that the chancellor erred in refusing to admit the testimony of various members of the charter commission which drafted the present…