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STATE EX REL. WINSTEAD v. MOODY

596 S.W.2d 811 (1980)

STATE of Tennessee, Ex rel. Heiskell H. WINSTEAD, District Attorney General and William M. Leech, Jr., Attorney General for the State of Tennessee, Plaintiffs Appellants, v. Edward H. MOODY, Judge, General Sessions Court, Hamblen County, Tennessee, Defendant Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 24, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Littleton, Deputy Atty. Gen., Nashville, for plaintiffs appellants; William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen., Nashville, of counsel.

John F. Dugger, Morristown, for defendant appellee; Bacon, Dugger, Jessee & Perkins, Morristown, of counsel.

OPINION

BROCK, Chief Justice.

This is a quo warranto action in which the District Attorney General for Hamblen County and the Attorney General for the State of Tennessee appealed from the decree of the Chancellor holding that the legislative body of Hamblen County, rather than the Governor of the State of Tennessee, was vested with authority to fill a vacancy occurring in the office of General Sessions Judge of Hamblen County.

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