Legal Opinion

Chambers v. Pemberton

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided May 18, 1940Published

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Chambliss

delivered tlie opinion of the Court.

This petition for attachment for contempt must he dismissed. The bill in this case prayed for an injunction to restrain Pemberton from acting as a member of the County School Board to which he had been elected on the allegation that he had removed his residence from the civil district in which he resided when elected into another district and thereby vacated his office. The chancellor granted a fiat on the filing of the bill, but on the hearing sustained a demurrer to the bill and dissolved the injunction and dismissed the bill. The injunction was the sole…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Foster v. HarleTennessee Supreme Court · 1933

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