Wright v. Gamble
Supreme Court of Georgia
Quo warranto. Before Judge Brand. Clarke superior court. July 27, 1910. An act of the General Assembly, approved December 15, 1897 (Acts 1897, p. 387), created a board of commissioners of roads and revenue for the County of Clarke.
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Quo warranto. Before Judge Brand. Clarke superior court. July 27, 1910. An act of the General Assembly, approved December 15, 1897 (Acts 1897, p. 387), created a board of commissioners of roads and revenue for the County of Clarke. Under the provisions of the act-the grand jury at the next regular term of the superior court of Clarke County, after the passage of the act, were to elect three citizens and resident freeholders who should constitute a board, one of whom should be elected for one year, one for two years, and one for three years. Each succeeding grand jury at the spring term of…
1Opinion of the CourtFisi-r, C. J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) The controlling question presented by the record is, whether the board of commissioners of roads and revenue of Clarke county, created by an act of General Assembly, approved December 15, 1897 (Acts 1897, p. 389), the act providing that the commissioners “shall elect their own clerk with such pay as the board may allow,” had the power, in the absence of any law fixing the term of office of the clerk, to prescribe, by resolution duly passed, the tenure of the office of the clerk at two years, and, having subsequently elected a clerk for that time, could…
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