State ex rel. Dye v. Rawls

OPINION

COOPER, Justice.

W. B. Dye, a citizen of Portland, Tennessee, filed an action in the Chancery Court of *160Sumner County seeking to oust the defendant, William J. Rawls, from the office of Mayor of Portland. The District Attorney General for the Ninth Judicial Circuit, which includes the City of Portland, joined in the action. The basis of the quo warran-to action was the charge that the defendant is not qualified to serve as mayor since, at the time of his election, he had not been a bona fide resident and citizen of the City of Portland for two years, as required by Article III, Section…