State Ex Rel. Rice v. Large

This is an action in the nature of a quo warranto, issued in the name of the state of Mississippi by the Attorney-General, whereby it is sought to have the appellee, U. S. Large, removed from the office of county superintendent of education of Wayne county, Mississippi. To the information filed on behalf of the state, the appellee filed a plea in abatement, alleging, in effect, that all the matters involved were also involved and being liti gated in a prior suit then pending in the same court. The demurrer to this plea in abatement was overruled, and, the state having declined to plead…