State ex rel. Randolph v. Wood

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Knapp, J.

This information, by leave granted to the relator, was filed for the purpose of trying the right of the-respondent to hold and exercise the office of member of the-common council of the city of Burlington. Like proceedings were instituted against Joseph R. Ivins, J. Frank Budd, Decatur Abdell and Samuel E. Lippincott, challenging the-title of each to a similar office in that city. The several informations were prosecuted upon the same grounds, and. each of the respondents pleaded the same matters in vindication of their questioned right. The…