Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Milligan v. Jones

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1920PublishedCited by 17 opinions

FROM GIBSON. Error to the Chancery Court of Gibson County. — Hon. V. H. Holmes, Chancellor.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr.'Chief Justice La,nsden

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an ouster suit brought by relators against the defendant as a school director. The first assignment of error is that the office of school director is not an office *577of trust or profit within the meaning of the Ouster Act.

Chapter 11, Acts of 1915, provides that every person holding any office of trust or profit, under or by virtue of any of the laws of the State of Tennessee, either State, county, or municipal office except such officers as are by the Constitution removable only and exclusively by methods other than those…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State v. BuckTennessee Supreme Court · 1917

3Cited by17 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. Jones v. LooperCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 2000
  2. Wimberly v. DeaconSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1943
  3. Board of Education v. Shelby CountyTennessee Supreme Court · 1960
  4. Davis v. WilliamsTennessee Supreme Court · 1928
  5. State Ex Rel. Boles v. GroceTennessee Supreme Court · 1925

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