Dunlap v. Littell

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The appellee and plaintiff below, T. R. Littell, was duly elected to the office of assessor of 'Grant county at the regular election in 1917 and took the oath of office, as provided by law, on the first Monday in January, 1918. The legislature convened in regular session on the first Monday of the latter year, and on March 15, thereafter it enacted chapter 11, Acts 1918, page 31 (now sections 4042a-l-4042a-15, inclusive, of the 1922 edition of the statutes), whereby the office of county assessor was abolished under the power conferred by section…