Hudson v. Johnson

Under the provisions of section 1160, C. P. A., which provides that “ The title to any office, to determine which the writ of quo warranto lies at the common law, may be brought in question by petition in equity in the Supreme Court,” the petitioner, averring his election by the town council of the town of Coventry, on June 14, 1909, as “Town Auditor of all bills and claims against the town of Coventry,” and that pursuant to said election he has duly qualified according to law, brings this petition in equity against the respondent, whose selection by the taxpaying voters of the town at a…