State ex rel. Attorney-General v. McKee

Henry* J.

This is a proceeding by quo warranto, in *505which it is alleged that defendants ai’e unlawfully acting as constables in the first and seventeenth wards of the city of St. Louis. The defendants filed separate answers, which do not differ materially, alleging that, by an ordinance, No. 10,744, of the municipal assembly of the city of St. Louis, approved March 11th, 1878, the first and seventeenth wards of said city were constituted a district for the election of constables, and by the said ordinance it was provided, that, at the general election to be held in November, 1878, and every…