State v. Harris

HOUSER, Commissioner.

At the relation of three residents of the twenty-second ward of the City of St. Louis the State of Missouri filed an information in quo warranto in the Circuit Court of the County of St. Louis praying for an order of forfeiture of office and ouster of Alfred I. Harris as alderman of that ward, on the ground that after election he moved from his residence in the city ward to St. Louis County in violation of a provision of the city charter that an alderman shall forfeit his office if at any time he not be a resident of the ward from which elected. Following issuance of the…