State Ex Rel. Cotter v. Leipner

This action is brought to determine the title to the office of judge of the City Court of Bridgeport.

The following facts have been stipulated: The terms of office of the defendants’ immediate predecessors (who, as it happens, were the present plaintiffs) expired under the law as it then was on June 30, 1949. The General Assembly having failed to appoint successors, there were vacancies in the office for the term commencing July 1, 1949. The governor, after the General Assembly adjourned, acting under the authority of § 92 of the General Statutes, appointed the defendants to fill those…