Morton v. Talmadge

John White Morton and E. B. Hodgson Jr., as relators, filed an information in the nature of a quo warranto against J. E. Talmadge Jr., Hugh H. Gordon Jr., and C. H. Brand, as respondents, seeking to determine-by-what right they assume to act as directors of the Southern Mutual Insurance Company, a Georgia corporation with its principal office at Athens, Clarke County, *621Georgia. The petition alleged the disqualification of Honorable Blanton Fortson, judge of the Western Circuit, by reason of the fact that he was a policyholder and member of the Southern Mutual Insurance Company as well as a…