State ex rel. Monahan v. Walton

This is an action in the nature of quo warranto, upon the information of the circuit attorney of the eighth judicial circuit of Missouri, at the relation of Patrick Monahan against John P. "Walton. The petition alleges that said Walton has intruded into and usurped the office of justice of the peace in the sixth district of the .city of St. Louis. It also alleges that the relator was duly elected at the general state election held on the 5th day of November, A. D. 1878, by a majority of the legal voters of said district, to the said office, and sets forth his eligibility under the laws of the…