State Ex Rel. Jones v. Lyon

This is a quo warrcmlo proceeding in which Jones seeks to obtain possession of the office of commissioner of the Mississippi levee board, which the appellee withholds from him and the duties of which the appellee is now discharging; and, from a judgment adverse to Jones, he has brought the case to this court.

The appellee was the duly appointed commissioner for the Mississippi levee board, for Humphreys county, for the term which expired on the 12th day of July, 1926. During the 1926 session of the legislature, the Governor appointed the appellee as his own successor as levee commissioner, for…