State ex inf. Attorney General v. Shull

ROBERTSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of ouster entered in the circuit court following the filing of an information in the nature quo warranto by the Attorney General of Missouri charging a public officer with violating the anti-nepotism provision of article VII, section 6 of the Missouri Constitution. This Court has jurisdiction. Mo. Const, art. V, § 3. The judgment is affirmed.

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The essential facts are undisputed though their meaning is strenuously contested. The people of Clay County, Missouri, elected Peggy Shull their presiding commissioner in November, 1990. A Republican,…