Benson v. Mellor

The question to be decided on this appeal is whether, upon a failure to elect to the offices of County Commissioners of Carroll County at the general election of November, 1926, those offices became vacant within the meaning of the constitutional ■ provision for appointments by the Governor to fill vacancies. At that election three commissioners were to be elected for terms of different lengths, two for four-year terms and one for a three-year term, and all nominations and elections were made without distinguishing which candidate was to fill the three-year term, and which the four-year…