State ex rel. Winstead v. Moody

OPINION

BROCK, Chief Justice.

This is a quo warranto action in which the District Attorney General for Hamblen County and the Attorney General for the State of Tennessee appealed from the decree of the Chancellor holding that the legislative body of Hamblen County, rather than the Governor of the State of Tennessee, was vested with authority to fill a vacancy occurring in the office of General Sessions Judge of Hamblen County.

The quo warranto action was filed by the District Attorney General after the county commissioners of Hamblen County on October 30, 1978, under the authority of Art. VII, §…