State ex inf. Barker v. Crandall
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon. Nat M. Shelton, Judge. (1) The title and term of office of the commissioner are provided by Sec. 8770, R. S. 1909. The term is three years. He receives a salary of $500 per annum. If not property in a precise sense it is a right that is protected against “the whimsical sport of chance, caprice or of intermeddlers, or of any form of illegal and unauthorized interference.”
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Error to Buchanan Circuit Court. — Hon. Nat M. Shelton, Judge. (1) The title and term of office of the commissioner are provided by Sec. 8770, R. S. 1909. The term is three years. He receives a salary of $500 per annum. If not property in a precise sense it is a right that is protected against “the whimsical sport of chance, caprice or of intermeddlers, or of any form of illegal and unauthorized interference.” State ex rel. v. Shepherd, 192 Mo. 509. (2) The office is vacated if the incumbent accepts any office of public trust or emolument, or receives, knowingly, a nomination to an elective…
1Opinion of the CourtBond, J.
I. On the - day of August, 1916, the Lieutenant Governor, William R. Painter, being then vested with all the authority of the absent Governor, filed, in the office of the Secretary of State, an order removing U. G. Crandall from the office of Police Commissioner of the City of St. Joseph, setting forth in the order of removal, as his reason, that he was fully satisfied of the “official misconduct” of the deposed commissioner. * Prior to this amotion the Lieutenant Governor telegraphed the commissioner to resign and received no response. Upon the failure of the commissioner to yield his…
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