State ex rel. Prout v. Nolan
Nebraska Supreme Court
Original application in the nature of quo warranto to determine the rights of respondents to office as fire and police commissioners of a city of the first class.
1Opinion of the CourtBarnes, J.
This original action in quo warranto was commenced by the attorney general for the purpose of testing the validity of chapter 17 of the laws of 1908, otherwise known as the South Omaha Charter, and more' particularly that part of the act which provides for the appointment of a hoard of fire and police commissioners. To that end a petition was filed against the respondents, Thomas J. Nolan, A. L. Bergquist, William B. Van Sant, Alfred A. Nixon and George W. Masson, praying that they he required to show by what Avarrant or authority they assumed to act as fire and police commissioners of the…
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