Taylor v. Sullivan

By this proceeding, the relator seeks an adjudication as to the right of the respondent to hold the office of county attorney of Stearns county, for which office he received a majority of the votes cast at the general election in 1890. The point of contention is whether the respondent was legally elected, and can hold the *310office under such election, he being of foreign birth, and having never declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States until after such election. The contention that the relator has no such private interest in the matter as justifies him to invoke a decision…