Wilson v. . Jordan

The complaint in substance alleges that, under the act of 1895, chapter 75, entitled "An act to establish a criminal circuit court to be composed of the counties of Buncombe, Madison, Haywood and Henderson," the plaintiff, at the general election in November, 1896, was duly elected and qualified as clerk of said criminal court for Buncombe County for four years, and entered upon his office on the first Monday in December, 1896, and that his term was not yet expired; that the defendant, under color of an appointment by the Judge of the "Western Criminal District Court," had entered upon,…