Griffith v. County Court of Merger County

Williams, Judge:

Claiming to be elected to the office of commissioner of the county court of Mercer county at the general election, held on the 7th of November, 1916, for a full term of six years beginning on the 1st day of January, 1917, and to be denied a seat on the court and the right to participate in its proceedings, by respondents who claim to constitute said court,' relator, Owen P. Griffith, has applied to this court for a mandamus to compel B. B. Hunt and R. D. • Patterson, the acting members thereof, to recognize him as a member of said *412body and to admit him to office. There is no…