Hawkins v. Intendant

Bleckley, Justice.

1. The local legislation applicable to the case.is found in acts of 1872, p. 217, and acts of 1876, p. 150. This legis*528lation confines the right to vote for town officers to the registered voters. There was no registry, and yet an election was held for intendant and commissioners, and certain persons were elected by the votes cast. Their predecessors in office yielded to their supposed right; the new board entered upon and exercised their functions under color of the-election, and were thus in actual possession of the corporate franchises. They were never ousted or displaced.…