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STATE EX REL. LEECH v. WRIGHT

622 S.W.2d 807 (1981)

STATE of Tennessee, upon the relation of William M. LEECH, Jr., Attorney General, and upon the relation of thirteen citizens of Lincoln County, Tennessee, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Grady WRIGHT, Road Superintendent for Lincoln County, Tennessee, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

October 26, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Howell Forrester Wade, Forrester, Hays & Wallace, Pulaski, William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen., Michael E. Terry, Deputy Atty. Gen., Nashville, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Don Wyatt, Fred I. Womack, Womack & Mason, Fayetteville, for defendant-appellee.

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

Plaintiffs, eleven citizens of Lincoln County and the State Attorney General, appeal from an adverse decree of the trial court, following a non-jury trial of this suit brought to oust defendant, Grady Wright, from the office of Road Superintendent of Lincoln County.

The thrust of plaintiffs' appeal is that the proof adduced at trial required a finding of wilful misconduct in office, and, that the trial judge made a number...

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