Calling v. Gilland

At the general election in the fall of 1912 the plaintiff was elected to the office of county commissioner for the third commissioner’s district of the county of Dawson. Dawson county at that time was not under township organization and had three commissioners. Under the law as it then existed one county commissioner was elected each year for the term of three years. Best v. Moorhead, 96 Neb. 602; Saling v. Bahensky, p. 789 post. The term, therefore, for which the plaintiff was elected would expire in January, 1916. The constitutional amendment of 1912 provided for biennial elections (Const,…