Title 29, Remedies and Special Proceedings

If judgment is rendered in favor of such claimant, the court may order the defendant to deliver to the claimant, upon the claimant's qualifying as required by law, all books and papers belonging to the office in defendant's custody, or under defendant's control, and such claimant…

Such claimant, on claimant's recovery of the office, may also, at any time within one (1) year thereafter, bring suit against the defendant, and recover the damages claimant has sustained by reason of the act of the defendant.

When several persons claim to be entitled to the same office or franchise, they may be all made defendants, so as to determine their respective rights.

The validity of any election which may be contested under this Code cannot be tried under this chapter.

The suit is brought by the attorney general for the district or county, when directed so to do by the general assembly, or by the governor and attorney general of the state concurring.

(a) The suit is also brought on the information of any person, upon such person giving security for the costs of the proceedings, to be approved by the clerk of the court in which the bill is filed. (b) When the suit is brought at the relation of a private individual, it shall be…

The suit is brought by bill in equity, filed in either the circuit or chancery court of the county in which the office is usurped or held, or the corporation or supposed corporation holds its meetings or has its principal place of business.

(a) The bill shall set forth briefly, and without technical forms, the grounds upon which the suit is instituted. (b) The suit shall be conducted as other suits in equity.

The court is authorized, upon the filing of the bill, properly verified, in all proper cases, to grant attachments and injunctions, and appoint receivers to effect the ends of justice, and to make all such orders, rules, and decrees, according to the practice of a court of chance…

The defendants appear and answer the bill in the usual way, and such answer shall not be read against them in any criminal prosecution brought against them, or either of them.

Such issues of fact as may become necessary to try by jury in the progress of the cause shall be made up under the direction of the court, and submitted to a jury impaneled forthwith.

When a defendant, whether a natural person or a corporation, is adjudged guilty of usurping, unlawfully holding, or exercising any office or franchise, judgment shall be rendered that such defendant be excluded from the office or franchise, and that defendant pay the costs.

If it be adjudged that a defendant corporation has by neglect, nonuse, abuse or surrender, forfeited its corporate rights, judgment will be rendered that the defendant be altogether excluded from such rights and be dissolved; and in the event the court shall find that the corpora…

Such judgment of dissolution shall not extinguish the debt due to or from the corporation; but the court shall appoint a receiver, with full power to take possession of all the debts and property, and sell, dispose of, collect, and distribute the same among the creditors and othe…

If such action is at the suit of the state alone, and judgment is for the defendant, or the defendants are insolvent, the costs are to be paid as in other state cases.

(a) Should the sole relator die pending the action, the suit abates, unless by the second term thereafter it is revived in the name of some person who, on application, and giving security for costs, is substituted in the place of the deceased relator. (b) If there are several rel…

Either party is entitled to take the case to the proper appellate court as provided by the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure.