Engram v. Faircloth

Candler, Justice.

T. C. Engrain and Homer Lockett as citizens and taxpayers of Randolph County, Georgia, presented to the judge of the superior court an application for leave to file an information in the nature of a quo warranto to inquire into the right of T. E. Faircloth to hold the office and discharge the duties of sheriff in that county. They alleged that the respondent was ineligible to hold the office in question because he had not resided in Randolph County for a period of two years next before his election; nor for two. years next before his induction into office. In a properly…