State ex rel. Hunt v. Mayor of Kearney

This is an application for a mandamus to compel the defendants to admit the relator to his seat as a member of the council of said city. It is alleged in the petition that “the city of Kearney, Nebraska, is a municipal corporation, organized as a city of the second class of over 5,000 inhabitants, under the general laws of the state of Nebraska, and is divided into four wards, and has-been so organized and divided for nearly two years last past; that the plaintiff is a resident, legal voter, and taxpayer of the Fourth war’d in said city, duly qualified to hold office therein, and has been…