Baker v. Combs

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Hurt

Affirming.

*262This appeal involves the soundness of the judgment of the trial court in determining’, who is- entitled to the office of chief of police of Hazard, for a term beginning on the first Monday of January, 1922. The appellee, who was the plaintiff below, instituted this action against the mayor and members of the -council of the town, and .one Wooton, who was assuming to act as chief of police, averring that he, the appellee, had been duly elected to the office of -chief of police by the voters of the town at the regular election in November,…