Sheehan v. Scott

HARRISON, C.

At the municipal election held in San Francisco November 7, 1899, the appellant received a plurality of all the votes cast for the office of tax-collector of said city and county, and thereafter the board of election commissioners declared him to have been elected to said office for the term of two years from the first Monday after the first day of January, 1900, and issued to him a certificate of election therefor. The respondent herein—an elector of said city and county—contested his right to the office upon the ground that under the provisions of the charter of San Francisco he…