The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-03-07
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS.
Supreme Court Decisions.

The Supreme Court last week decided
the case of the Birmingham & Cincin-
natl Railroad Company VS.. Overton
county. This was a question as to GER
tain Illegal votes cast for or against
subscription to the road at an election
held in Overton county. The court held
that the County Court had the right in
its judicial functions to declare said
votes illegal and this action was final.
The action of the Circuit Court in dis
missing the petition was affirmed.
The court also decided the case of
Crowley VS.. Exum. This was a ques-
tion as to the right to remove Clerk
and Master. M. A. Crowley was Clerk
and Master under his father, Chancellor
Crowley, of the Fifth Judicial District.
After serving three years he resigned,
and was on the same day reappointed by
bis father. This was short time be-
fore Chancellor Crowley's term expired.
When w. w. Wade succeeded to the
bench, he ordered w. A. Crowley's bond
to be spread on the minutes, and they
were then signed by him. BY this ac-
tion the court held that he ratified the
appointment. After three years Chan
cellor Wade appointed Exum as Clerk
and Master, and the suit was brought to
femove Crowley. The court held that
there was no such thing as an unexpired
term of the Clerk and Masters office,
and that when man was appointed to
a position he was entitled to hold the
constitutional term of six years. There
fore the decree of the Chancellor in re-
moving Crowley was reversed, the court
holding that he is entitled to recover
the Office.
HUMBOLDT was last week visited with
the most terrific wind and hail storm
ever experienced in that community.
All the windows on the south side of
the residences are a total wreck, and
many stores were damaged by the hail.
E. T. Transon's furniture store was un-
rooted and his stock of furniture dam
aged. The colored Baptist church was
blown down, also the new colored public
school building. Joe Grafton, colored,
had his house destroyed. 1t is impossi
BILE to estimate the damage, though it
will be several thousand dollars.
AT mass meeting of the citizens of
Chattanooga a few days ago it was de-
cided to give the Confederate Veterans
Association which meets there in July,
rousing welcome, and committee of
leading citizens of old soldiers of both
armies was appointed to take charge of
the management of the affair. The in
dications from letters received from all
over the country are that there will be
an enormous crowd in attendance
A JOINT RESOLUTION is before the Leg
islature for the removal of w. w. Wade
from his Office of Chancellor and the re-
lief of the Sixth Chancery Division of
the State. The resolution states that
the Chancellor is unable to attend to the
business of his court on account of ill
health, and is now permanently dis
abled and disqualified to discharge the
duties, and provides that he be removed
from Office and his seat declared vacant
The Constitution provides that Judges
and attorneys may be removed from
Office by concurrent vote of both
houses of the General Assembly. 1t
further says the Judge or Legislature
when about to proceed, shall receive
notice thereof, accompanied with @ copy
of the causes alleged for his removal, at
least ten days before the day on which
either house of the General Assembly
shall act thereon.
AT the recent session of the Synod of
Memphis, held at Collierville, = resolu-
tion was adopted appointing a commit
tee to consider the whole question of
the establishment of Presbyterian Fe.
male College within the bounds of tho
Synod, with authority to devise ways
and means and receive proposals for
location, ETC., and to report at the next |
session.
THE County Trustee of Davidson |
county one day last week paid into the |
State Treasury the largest amount ever
paid in one payment, 1923, 4ss, of which |
800, 900 was in cash and the balance in |
Bank of Tennessee certificates.
THE sale of lots at the new town of |
Hartman, on the Cincinnati Southern |
railroad, owned by the East Tennessee |
Land Company, camo off last week. The |
town is laid off in an old field, and there |
are not half a dozen houses in the place, |
but the lots sold for an average of $26 |
per front foot, and 263 lots were sold. |
Four thousand people were present, |
twenty-four States of the Union being |
represented. The company has appro-
priated $1,000, 900 for streets, water and |
lights, and improvement of the new
town site.
FRED. w. FAIRFIELD has been ap- |
pointed City Electrician of Nashville, a |
new Office. He is an expert, whose duty |
it will be to inspect the fire alarm SER
vice and protect rights of the corpora
tion as affected by the telephone, cleo
trio street car or electric light COM
panies-
THE following changes have been made
in Tennessee postmasters: w. s. E.
Barnes, Clara, Washington county, vice /
]. NJ. Grisham, resigned; A. t. Bowen,
War Gap, Hawkins county, vice II. d.
Gonce, resigned; S. J. Cooke, Middle
burg, Hardeman county, vice c. ]. Lit
tie, resigned.
MAJ. B. NJ. HoRD, Commissioner of
Agriculture, who recently returned from
a trip to East Tennessee, says he found
farmers generally feeling pretty good,
although they lost great deal of meat. T
The stand of wheat is excellent, and
there is a large acreage. Cold weather
has injured it but little and the pros
poets are promising for a large crop.
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