STATE EX REL. BROWN v. BATES


553 S.W.2d 746 (1977)

STATE of Tennessee ex rel. Arnold BROWN et al., Appellants, v. James C. BATES et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

July 25, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Barrett, Barrett, Brandt & Barrett, Nashville, for appellants.

R.A. Ashley, Jr., Atty. Gen., Robert H. Roberts, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Charles W. Bone, Gallatin, Charles Hampton White, Nashville, for appellees.


OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

In this suit the relators, as citizens and freeholders of Sumner County, seek to oust from their offices as Justices of the Peace the defendants, Billy S. Hobbs, George R. Offitt, and Pat L. Webb, alleging that they are in violation of T.C.A., § 49-217, by virtue of their employment by the Sumner County Board of Education as, in the case of Hobbs, principal of a school, in the case of Offitt, assistant principal of a school,...

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