State ex rel. Thompson v. Crump
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Shelby County. ■ — FlaNcis Fentress, Chancellor; F. H. Heiskell, Chancellor sitting by courtesy. Appealed to the April Term, 1916, at Jackson, for the Western división, bnt transferred to Nashville and advanced and heard at the December Term, 1915.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
This bill was filed by the State, on relation of the attorney-general, against Edward H. Crump, mayor of the city of Memphis, R. A. Utley, vice mayor and *124commissioner of the department of fire and police of the city of Memphis, Oliver IT. Perry, inspector of police of the city of Memphis, and W. M. Stanton, city judge of Memphis, to remove them from their several positions on account of alleged misconduct in office. The suit was instituted on October 14, 1915, and was based on chapter 11 of the Acts of 1915, known as the Ouster Law.
The bill averred that defendant Crump was first inducted into…
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