Churchill v. Walker
Supreme Court of Georgia
Practice in Supreme Court. Officers. Actions. County Matters. Constitutional Law. Before Judge’FLEMlNG. "McIntosh Superior Court. July Term, 1881. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Speer, Justice.
The record discloses that at an election held on the 20th of April, 1881, the plaintiffs in error were elected to the offices of mayor and aldermen of the city of Darien.
As such officials elect they filed their petition in the superior court of McIntosh county, asking leave to file an information in the nature of a quo ivarranto against James Walker and others, defendants in error, who have been, and still are, exercising the powers of mayor and aider-men of the city of Darien under the acts of the general assembly of 1871 and 1876, creating the board of county commissioners.…
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