Martin v. Cogbill, Commissioner

Appellant Martin filed a verified petition with the City Council of Star City, of which city he was a citizen and taxpayer, alleging that J. D. Cogbill should be removed as Commissioner of a Waterworks Improvement District of that city, for malfeasance and misfeasance in office. Cogbill filed an answer denying the allegations of the petition. At the hearing thereon the Council returned a unanimous verdict ordering and directing the removal of Cogbill as Commissioner. The proceeding was reviewed upon a writ of certiorari by the circuit court, and the order of removal was quashed, from which…