State Ex Rel. Barnard v. Ambrogio

This case involves an appeal from a judgment of the trial court determining that neither of the two defendants had established his right to hold the office of deputy police chief of the town of Hamden. Following the appointment of the defendant John Ambrogio and the defendant Clarence A. Drumm to the office of deputy police chief, three separate quo warranto proceedings were instituted to test by what authority each claimed to hold the office. Since each defendant claims to have been lawfully appointed, each brought a separate action of quo warranto as relator with the other as the defendant.…