Rowe v. Bateman

On April 6, 1897, appellants instituted this proceeding in the lower court against the appellees, John W. Bateman, and Isaac Hague, then county commissioners of DeKalb county, for the purpose of impeaching them for official misconduct, and thereby removing them from office, under §35 of an act of the legislature approved March 8, 1897, entitled “An act for the impeachment and removal from office of public officers.” (Acts 1897, p. 278.)

The complaint disclosed that appellees were elected commissioners of said county in 1894, and that the official term of Blague expired on the 3rd day of…