State Ex Rel. Rylands v. Pinkerman
Supreme Court of Connecticut
INFORMATION in the nature of a quo warranto, filed in the Superior Court in Fairfield County in October, 1891, against the captain of police of the city of Bridgeport, for usurping the office of chief of police of the city, claimed to belong to the relator.
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INFORMATION in the nature of a quo warranto, filed in the Superior Court in Fairfield County in October, 1891, against the captain of police of the city of Bridgeport, for usurping the office of chief of police of the city, claimed to belong to the relator. The defendant pleaded that the relator had been duly removed from the office of chief of police on J une 11th, 1891, by the board of police commissioners of the city for cause, and that they thereupon had committed the exercise of the duties of chief of police to the defendant, being the officer next in rank, pursuant to the city…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The plea in abatement which has been interposed by the State, goes upon the ground that the farther prosecution of this appeal would simply invite the court to decide questions that are no longer of any practical importance, since the relator is now in full and undisturbed possession of the office which was the occasion of the action. .It appears, however, that he has recovered such possession by reason of the removal of the defendant from his office of captain of police, and that this removal was made pending the appeal, and upon charges of insubordination preferred by the relator. The…
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