State ex rel. Holman v. Murray

This is a proceeding in the nature of quo warrantor instituted by the attorney general of the state under the authority conferred upon him in Gen. St. 1878, c. 79, § 3, against the respondent, whom he charges with having usurped and intruded into, with unlawfully holding and exercising, the office of corporation attorney for the city of St. Paul. The facts are briefly these: On the first Tuesday of the month of March, 1885, pursuant to the terms of the statute, (Sp. Laws 1885, c. 7, § 21,) the respondent, Murray, was duly elected to the office of corporation attorney for said city for the…