Attorney General v. Drohan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Information, in the nature of a quo warranto, filed July 13, 1897, by the Attorney General, to try the title to membership in the Democratic City Committee of the city of Boston. Hearing before Lathrop, J., who reserved the case upon the information, answer, and an agreed statement of facts, for the consideration of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The first question is whether the relators, as members of the Democratic City Committee of Boston, hold public offices. If they do not, this information cannot be maintained, since the Attorney General can intervene in matters of this nature only so far as they relate to public offices. For any interference with their private rights, the remedy of the relators is by proceedings in their own names against the parties in possession of the offices to which they claim to have been elected. Commonwealth v. Dearborn, 15 Mass. 125. Kenney v. Consumers' Gas Co. 142 Mass. 417. Attorney General v.…
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