People ex rel. Marshall v. Leonard
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Tuolumne County. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Foote, C.
This action was instituted for the purpose of having the office of supervisor of the first district of Tuolumne County declared vacant.
The court below gave judgment in accordance with the prayer of the complaint, and from that the defendant has appealed.
It appears that he had been duly elected by the people of his district to the office of supervisor thereof, and had held it for some months, receiving for his services less *231than five hundred dollars a year as salary, and that then he was appointed to the office of postmaster of the city of Sonora, which is a lucrative office under the…
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