Chambers v. Terry

This is an election contest. Following an election which was held in April, 1939, the contestee was declared to be elected to the office of judge of the Municipal Court of the City of San Diego. The contestant, who was a candidate for the same office at that election, filed a contest on the sole ground that under the “law of the State of California relating to Municipal Courts in the City of San Diego” the contestee was ineligible and not qualified to be elected to this office for the reason that he “had not had at least five years active practice at law in this State prior to his said…