State Ex Rel. City of St. Petersburg v. Noel

— The City of St. Petersburg seeks by means of a writ of quo warranto based upon a petition signed in its name by its attorneys to test the authority by which R. H. Noel exercises the powers and functions of Chief of Police of the city.

In the petition the city was not joined by the Attorney General of the State, who refused an application by the city to him to allow the information to be brought in his name as Attorney General.

Upon the petition being presented to this Court it caused a rule nisi to be issued to Noel requiring him to show cause on a date named why the petition in the nature of…