State Ex Rel. Thompson v. Read

This is a proceeding under chapter 11, Public Acts of 1915, to remove from office eight justices of the peace of Hamblen county for wilfully refusing to participate in sessions of the quarterly county court. The county court of Hamblen county is composed of eighteen justices of the peace, three-fifths of whom constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Shannon’s Code, section -6001.

In John W. Crews et al. v. B. J. Witt, Mss. Knoxville, the court held that after forty years of public recognition the act carried into this section of the Code must he recognized as valid.

Prior to the…