Maddox v. State

This is a quo warranto proceeding filed by the prosecuting attorney for the purpose of ousting Ode Maddox and Winfred Coffman from their positions as members of the Montgomery County Board of Education. It was stipulated that Maddox is the superintendent of, and a teacher in, Oden School District No. 43, and that Coffman is a teacher in Caddo Gap School District No. 50. Upon an agreed statement of facts the circuit court held that Maddox and Coffman are ineligible to be members of the County Board of Education, and the court accordingly removed them from office.

The law provides that members…