United States Ex Rel. Crawford v. Addison
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the case being thus: The charter of Georgetown provides that on the fourth Monday of February in each two years, the citizens shall elect a mayor, “ to continue in office two years and until a successor is duly elected.”
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Error to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the case being thus: The charter of Georgetown provides that on the fourth Monday of February in each two years, the citizens shall elect a mayor, “ to continue in office two years and until a successor is duly elected.” The person having the greatest number of votes is to be declared elected; and in the event of an equal number of votes being given to two or more candidates, two council-boards, of which, the corporation is composed, are to elect from the persons having such equal number. "With this charter in force, Crawford, being in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
"When the application was made to this court for a mandamus to the Circuit Court to compel the issue of process upon the judgment of ouster against the defendant, Addison, in the quo warranto proceeding, notwithstanding the writ of error and bond, the counsel of the relator contended that the case was not one in which a writ of error would lie; that to authorize the writ'the matter in dispute must have a pecuniary value of at least one thousand dollars; that the matter in dispute was a public office of personal trust and confidence, which was not the subject of pecuniary estimation; that the…
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