Long v. Carter

1. A person holding the office of justice of the peace in this State does not vacate the office by ceasing to be a resident of the district for which he was elected, where he continues to reside within the State, and where the fact of his cessation of residence has not been judicially ascertained. Political Code (1910), § 264 (5).

2. A petition which alleged damage to the petitioner by conduct of the defendant in issuing, by virtue of his office as justice of the peace in the district for which he had been elected a justice, a fi. fa. on the foreclosure of a laborer’s lien against the…