Hayes v. Kelley

This case involves a contest instituted by the defendant in error in the county court of Rhea county against the plaintiff in error over the office of the clerk of the county court of that county. On the ninth day of July, 1903, that court formally adjudged the defendant in error to have been duly elected to that office at the election held in August, 1902, and that he was entitled to recover from the contestee all the costs incident to the litigation.

From this judgment the contestee prayed and was granted an appeal to the next term of the circuit court to be held for that county. That term…