State ex rel. Gill v. Board of Supervisors
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPLICATION for a Mandamus. Chapter 129, Laws of 1861, provided that in counties containing three or more assembly districts, there should be elected one member of the county board of supervisors in each as sembly district, and that when there was an even number of such districts, exceeding three, an additional supervisor for the county at large should be elected; that they should be elected at the general election in November of each alternate year, and should hold for the…
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APPLICATION for a Mandamus. Chapter 129, Laws of 1861, provided that in counties containing three or more assembly districts, there should be elected one member of the county board of supervisors in each as sembly district, and that when there was an even number of such districts, exceeding three, an additional supervisor for the county at large should be elected; that they should be elected at the general election in November of each alternate year, and should hold for the term of two years; and that the first election under the act should be in November of that year. Under ch. 216, Laws of…
1Opinion of the CourtDixon, C. J.
The most material question, as it seems to me, and that on which all others turn in this application, is, whether the office of a member of the county board of supervisors, elected for a district, is a local office in the sense that the incumbent must reside in the district and continue to reside there until the end of his term, or forfeit his office. This *446is a question on which we may reasonably expect considerable difference of opinion, and on- which too, unfortunately, no light can be thrown by the examination of authorities. So far as the question depends on the statute, that may almost…
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