State ex rel. Booth v. Bryan
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Benton: J. C. Fullerton, Judge. The plaintiff Charles Booth prays a writ of mandamus founded upon the following state of facts, which appear from the alternative writ: The relator is a resident, voter, and taxpayer, and has been for ninety days last past, the duly appointed, qualified, and acting superintendent of common schools for Lincoln County, Oregon.
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Appeal from Benton: J. C. Fullerton, Judge. The plaintiff Charles Booth prays a writ of mandamus founded upon the following state of facts, which appear from the alternative writ: The relator is a resident, voter, and taxpayer, and has been for ninety days last past, the duly appointed, qualified, and acting superintendent of common schools for Lincoln County, Oregon. The defendant E. L. Bryan is now, and for the past six months has been, the duly elected, qualified, and acting superintendent of common schools for Benton County. On the eighth of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Wolverton.
This controversy is the outgrowth of an act of the legislative assembly of the State of Oregon, which became a law February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, constituting Lincoln County from the western portion of Benton. By section 11 of said act it is provided: “It shall be the duty of the superintendent of schools of Benton County, within sixty days after the appointment of the superintendent of schools of Lincoln County, to make out and forward to said superintendent of schools of Lincoln County a true and correct transcript or abstract of the…
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