Hall v. Cummings

This was mandamus to the clerk and recorder of Washington county. A demurrer to the alternative writ was sustained and the relators bring error.

The relators and others presented to the respondent a petition for the recall of one Buckmaster as county commissioner. The clerk refused to accept it. Mandamus was brought. On demurrer sustained as above the writ was discharged.

The ground relied on in this court to support the judgment is that the county commissioner is a county officer and that county officers cannot be recalled under the so-*75called recall amendment, article XXI of the Constitution,…