State ex rel. Grode v. Johnstone

This is an action in the nature of quo warranto brought to test the right of respondent Johnstone to hold the office of assessor for Ramsey county. The litigation is the result of the very complicated condition of the provisions of the charter *57of the city of St. Paul, when read in connection with other laws bearing upon and .affected by such charter provisions.

Grode, the relator, claims to have been duly appointed to the office of assessor in the month of March of the present year, and to be lawfully entitled to the place. Eespondent Seng makes the same claim, and was made a party to the…