State ex rel. Birkhauser v. Moores
Nebraska Supreme Court
Original action in the nature of quo warranto by the state on the relation of A. O. Foster, H. E. Palmer, and Peter W. Birkhauser, to oust the respondents Frank E. Moores, Daniel D. Gregory, William G. Bullard, James H. Peabody, and R. E. Lee Hurdman, from the offices of fire and police commissioners of the city of Omaha. The action was dismissed as to relators Foster and Palmer.
1Opinion of the CourtNorval, J.
This was an action of quo warranto instituted in this court by A. O. Foster, H. E. Palmer, and Peter W. Birkhauser to determine the rights of relators and respondents, respectively, to the offices of fire and police com*635missioners of the city of Omaha. Relators were appointed to said office, by a board, consisting of the governor, commissioner of public lands and buildings, and attorney general, created by section 145, chapter 12®, Compiled Statutes, 1895, which said chapter is entitled “Cities of the metropolitan class.” The last state legislature created a new charter for the government of…
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