Supreme Court of North Carolina February 22, 1922 (State v. . Jackson)

Civil action, in the nature of a quo warranto, brought under C. S. 870, to determine the question of title to the office of sheriff of *Page 745 Polk County for the two-year period beginning in December, 1918, and ending in December, 1920. The defendant and the relator were rival candidates for the office of sheriff of Polk County in the general election of 1918.