Ritchie v. Richards
Utah Supreme Court
'Application by Morris L. Ritcbie against Morgan Richards, state auditor, James Ghipman, state treasurer, and A. G. Bishop, attorney general, as the board of state canvassers, for a writ of prohibition. The journals must show, in order to support the integrity of any act, that all the necessary constitutional steps were taken in its passage. Cooley’s Gonst.
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'Application by Morris L. Ritcbie against Morgan Richards, state auditor, James Ghipman, state treasurer, and A. G. Bishop, attorney general, as the board of state canvassers, for a writ of prohibition. The journals must show, in order to support the integrity of any act, that all the necessary constitutional steps were taken in its passage. Cooley’s Gonst. Lim., 506-7; McCreary on Elections, 304; By an. v. Lynch, 68 Ill. 162; Spengler v. Jacobs, 14 HI. 298; People v.' Storm, 35 HI. 121; Will y. Kempfield, 54 Cal. 112; Illinois Central E. E. Co. v. People, 143 HI. 434; Eailroad Tax Case, 8…
1Opinion of the Court
Zane, C. J.:
The plaintiff is one of the judges of the Third judicial district of the state of Utah, appointed by the governor on June 1st to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Le Grand Young, whose term of office extended to the first Monday of January, 1901. In pursuance of an act entitled “An act relating to and making sundry provisions concerning elections,” in force April 5, 1896' (Sess. Haws Utah 1896, p. 369), and of an act in relation to elections, defining offenses against the same, and prescribing punishments therefor, in force March 28 (Id. p. 183), a general…
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