State ex rel. Brookshire v. Snodgrass

This was a motion for a writ of mandate. An alternate writ issued as asked. The appellee demurred to the affidavit and the writ for want of facts, which was sustained. To this ruling the appellant excepted, and, after judgment in favor of the appellee upon the demurrer, appealed to this court, assigning for error the ruling excepted to.

The affidavit upon which the relator’s motion was based stated substantially that he was superintendent of roads in Clark township, in Montgomery county, by virtue of his election to said office in April, 1882, and held the same until March 2d, 1883, when said…