State ex rel. Inman v. Quarterly County Court of Cocke County

This is a test suit challenging the validity of a school bond referendum in Cocke County in 1958. The Quarterly Court submitted the question of issuance of $1,530,000.00 in school bonds to a referendum vote of the people on November 8, 1958.

The referendum carried by a twenty-one vote margin. Only eight days strict legal notice was given of the election referendum. When the Quarterly Court refused to issue the bonds a mandamus suit was filed. In Lamb v. State ex rel. Kisabeth, 207 Tenn. 159, 338 S.W.2d 584 (1960) this Court affirmed the Chancellor and manda-mused the Quarterly Court to issue…