State Ex Rel. Davis v. Johns

This is an action in the nature of quo warranto to try the title to the office of regent of the state university.

The information alleges that, heretofore, the then governor appointed the relator to the office for the term of six years beginning on the second Monday of March, 1922, and that he accepted the appointment and qualified and ever since the second Monday of March, 1922, he has been a duly appointed, qualified and .acting regent of the university; that on the 4th day of May, 1926, the governor filed with the secretary of state, and the secretary of state thereafter forthwith sent a…