Board of Health v. Board of Commissioners

Tbis controversy is over the appointment of a health officer for Nash County.

The general law on this subject is found in C. S., 7067, Michie’s Code of 1939, and is as follows: “The board of health shall . . . elect either a county physician or a county health officer, whose tenure of service shall be terminable at the pleasure of the county board of health, and who shall serve thereafter until the second Monday in January of the odd years of the calendar. If the county board of health of any county shall fail to elect a county physician or county health officer within two calendar months of…