State ex rel. Calling v. Smith

Dawson county is not under township organization, and has three commissioner districts, numbered respectively, 1, 2, and 8. The relator was elected commissioner for the third district in the fall of 1912, his term beginning in January, 1913, and. he concedes that he could not, by virtue of that election, hold longer than until January, 1917; but he contends that he is entitled to hold over because there was no valid election of a successor. At the election in 1916 the respondent was elected county commissioner for the third district. The contention is that this election is invalid and the…