State v. Mattingly

RUARK, Judge.

This case, here by reason of transfer from the Supreme Court, 268 S.W.2d 868, is a quo warranto brought on the information of the Attorney General at the relation of certain taxpaying residents of the town of Exeter against certain other persons then functioning as aldermen of city.

On the 31st day of December, 1946, the County Court of Barry County incorporated Exeter, Missouri, as a city of the fourth class. Thereafter the city organized its government, held elections, selected its officers and proceeded to function as a body politic. On May 9, 1950, at a special election, a…