Jones v. Gridley
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Sumner District Court. Quo warranto, brought by Cridley, to determine the right to the office of justice of the peace, which was claimed by both Jones and Cridley. Jones was in possession. The district court, at April Term 1877, decided in favor of Cridley, and rendered judgment of ouster against Jones, and the latter now brings the case here on error.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
statement of the case. On the 10th of February 1877, Ansel Gridley filed his petition in the district court of Sumner county, against E. E. Jones, to obtain thg office of justice of *he Peace for Oxford township in said county, alleging, among other things, that Oxford township was duly organized as a municipal township in the month of October 1871,'and that the first general election for township officers held in said township was held on the first Tuesday of the month of April 1872; that at the general election of November 1876, Ansel…
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