State ex rel. Turner v. Wilson

By Chapter 220, Private Acts of 1953, a new charter of incorporation was enacted for the Town of Middleton, in Hardeman County, and the relators, W. D. Turner et al., whom we shall refer to herein as the new Board, were designated as the Mayor and Board of Aldermen to serve as such until the first Monday of March 1955. The new Board qualified on March 30, 1953, but the defendants, John "Wilson et al., who were holding office under Chapter 359, Private Acts of 1901, as amended by the Act of 1917, whom we shall refer to herein as the old Board, refused to surrender their offices, or to turn…