State Ex Rel. Rice v. Large

An information in the nature of a quo warranto was filed by the attorney-general against appellee challenging the right of appellee to hold the office of superintendent of education of Wayne county. The defendant appeared and filed two special pleas, to each of which pleas the state demurred and the demurrers were overruled. No further steps were taken so far as appears of record and no final judgment was rendered by the court. But on the same day that the demurrers to the pleas were overruled, an application was made to the court to allow an appeal, and three days later an order was made…