Whaley v. Cotton

This case comes to us on appeal from the district court of Hughes county, the facts out of which it grew being substantially as follows:

The city of Holdenville is a city of the first class, not being under a commission or charter form of government. Sometime in 1920 the plaintiff in error, T. H. Whaley, who was plaintiff below, was appointed chief of police of the city of Holdenville. At the regular election in April, 1921, at which city officers were elected, no city marshal was elected, and plaintiff continued to occupy the position of chief of police. In 1923, at the regular city election,…