State ex rel. Peck v. Riordan
Wisconsin Supreme Court
This was an action, under the statute, to try the title of the defendants (seven in number) to the office of member of the board of supervisors of Washington -county.* The relator is one of the three persons who constituted said* board just prior to the Tuesday succeeding the second Monday of November, 1868; they having been elected in pursuance of general laws of the state then and since in force.
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This was an action, under the statute, to try the title of the defendants (seven in number) to the office of member of the board of supervisors of Washington -county.* The relator is one of the three persons who constituted said* board just prior to the Tuesday succeeding the second Monday of November, 1868; they having been elected in pursuance of general laws of the state then and since in force. The defendants were elected on the day last mentioned, in pursuance of an act oí the legislature approved March 6, 1868, and published as chapter 332, Private and Local Laws of 1868. The complaint…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
The question arising upon this demurrer is as to the validity of chapter 332, Private and Local Laws of 1868. That act provides, that in one of the assembly districts of Washington county there should be elected, at the general election in November, 1868, four county supervisors, two for the term of two years, and two for the term of one year; and that in the other assembly district there should, at the same election, be *487elected three supervisors, one for the term of one year, and two for the term of two years ; and that thereafter two supervisors should be elected annually in each of the…
2Cited by25 opinions
- State ex rel. Attorney General v. CunningamWisconsin Supreme Court · 1892
- State ex rel. Bolens v. FrearWisconsin Supreme Court · 1912
- State Ex Rel. Sonneborn v. SylvesterWisconsin Supreme Court · 1965
- Coulter v. PoolCalifornia Supreme Court · 1921
- Ashley v. Board of SupervisorsCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1893
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