State ex rel. Thayer v. Boyd
Nebraska Supreme Court
Original proceeding in nature of quo warranto. The naturalization of Joseph Boyd, the father, in 1890 did not make respondent a citizen. (Dryden v. Swinburne, 20 W. Ya., 89; State v. Adriano, 92 Mo., 70; Gumm v. Hubbard, 97 Id., 311; State v. Penney, 10 Ark., 621; O’Connor v. State, 9 Fla., 234; U. S. v. Keller, 13 Fed. Rep., 82; Heney v. Brooklyn, etc., Soc., 39 N. Y., 333, 335-6.) He could not become a citizen by relation. (In re Robert Desty, 8 Abb.
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Original proceeding in nature of quo warranto. The naturalization of Joseph Boyd, the father, in 1890 did not make respondent a citizen. (Dryden v. Swinburne, 20 W. Ya., 89; State v. Adriano, 92 Mo., 70; Gumm v. Hubbard, 97 Id., 311; State v. Penney, 10 Ark., 621; O’Connor v. State, 9 Fla., 234; U. S. v. Keller, 13 Fed. Rep., 82; Heney v. Brooklyn, etc., Soc., 39 N. Y., 333, 335-6.) He could not become a citizen by relation. (In re Robert Desty, 8 Abb. New Cases [N. Y.], 250; Dryden v. Swinburne, and Heney v. Brooklyn, eta., Soc., supra.) Respondent being ineligible, the election was void and…
1Opinion of the CourtNor val, J.
This is an action of quo warranto, brought in this court by John M. Thayer, in his own behalf, the attorney general having refused to prosecute the same, to establish the relator’s right to the office of governor of this state, and to oust the respondent therefrom. The information alleges :
“ 1. On the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday of November of the year 1888 'he, the said John M. Thayer, was, and for more than two years next preceding that time had been, a citizen of the United States and of this state, and then had, and now has, all the qualifications required by law to hold the…
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