Butler v. Cocke County

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

Plaintiffs action to recover salary as the County Executive of Cocke County for the period August 6, 1981 to August 31, 1982, on the basis that he was legally elected to the office was dismissed by the chancellor.

It is plaintiffs insistence on appeal he was duly elected in the General Election in 1980 to the remainder of the term to which William Blazer had originally been elected in 1978, and property rights in the office accruing on election entitled him to the salary which Cocke County has refused to pay.

Pertinent facts are undisputed and we adopt the following…