State ex rel. Werts v. Rogers

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beasley, Chief Justice.

This case has been placed before the court on a-rule to show cause why an information in the nature of a quo loctrranto should not "be issued against these respondents, each of whom claims, and to some extent has exercised, the office of president of the senate of New Jersey. Under this procedure evidence has been taken, and it thus appears that the twenty-one senators of the state have divided themselves into two bodies, that is to say, nine of the *615old members, who were styled in the argument “ hold-over members,” constituting…