State Ex Inf. Walsh v. Thatcher

Original action in quo warranto. The case is submitted on information, return and motion for judgment.(a) The information charges that the county judges of St. Louis County “usurped, intruded into and unlawfully executed and exercised their franchise of office” by entering orders approving an annual budget for 1937, submitted by the presiding judge as budget officer. It is argued that the judges, clerk, assessor, collector and treasurer, should have prepared the budget as provided in Section 7698, Kevised Statutes 1929, rather than the presiding judge, as provided in Section 9 of the Budget…