Attorney General v. Crocker

This is an information in the nature of a quo warranta to try the title of the respondents, respectively, to the offices of town clerk and selectmen of the town of Montague, which it is alleged they have usurped. The facts, as they appear from the report of the single justice of this court who heard the case, are as follows:

At the annual town meeting on March 3, 1884, a moderator was duly chosen and tellers were duly appointed by him to aid in checking the names of the voters and in assorting and counting the votes, according to the St. of 1883, e. 229. After the votes for town officers,…