Jefferson v. Toomer, Clerk of Superior Court
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
JUrror from Superior Court, Muskogee C'ounty; Bdga/r A. De Meules, Special Judge. Motion of E. D. Jefferson for writ of mandamus against ■Robert Toomer, Clerk of the Superior Court, Muskogee County. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtKane, J.
This was a motion for a writ of mandamus filed by the plaintiff in error, plaintiff below, in the superior court of Muskogee county, to require the defendant in error, defendant below, as clerk of that court, to file a certain civil action, to contest the title of the office of justice of the peace, growing out of the election of November 8, 1910. The clerk refused to file same on the ground that the act regulating his compensation and fees and costs therein prescribed was unconstitutional and void, because the title of said act is repugnant to section 57, article 5, of the Constitution,…
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