State ex rel. Schuet v. Murray

Action in tbe nature of a quo warranto, commenced - in this court. Tbe respondent demurred to tbe complaint. Tbe grounds upon wbicb tbe relator claims tbe office in dispute, will appear from tbe opinion. argued that although, a fundamental principle of our government, constituting a part of tbe unwritten law, would be violated by permitting persons wbo are not electors to administer tbe government by actually bold, ing and exercising its offices, yet no sucb principle forbids tbe election of persons to office wbo may be under some temporary disability for bolding office at tbe time of tbeir…