State ex rel. Holmes v. Finnerud

This is an action instituted in this court by the state’s attorney of Hughes county on his own information, under the provisions of section 5348, Comp. Laws, to determine the title of the defendant to the office of regent of education. The case is submitted on the pleadings, in which the facts are fully stated, and the original jurisdiction of this court under the power conferred upon it to issue writs of quo warranto by the constitution is invoked. No question is raised as to the exercise of the original jurisdiction of this court in this case, and its power to exercise such original…