State Ex Rel. Alton v. Waterman
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information in the nature of quo warranto to test the legality of the respondent’s appointment or election as an alderman of the City of Hartford, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Maltbie, J., upon an agreed finding of facts, for the advice of this court.
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Information in the nature of quo warranto to test the legality of the respondent’s appointment or election as an alderman of the City of Hartford, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Maltbie, J., upon an agreed finding of facts, for the advice of this court. It is stipulated that the respondent is a freeman of the City of Hartford and a resident of the sixth ward; that Newton C. Brainard, an alderman duly elected from the sixth ward, resigned his office on May 10th, 1920, and that at a regular meeting of the Common Council on June 14th, the following resolution…
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
Two objections are made to the respondent’s plea based on the charter and ordinance already quoted: that the office of alderman from the sixth ward is not a “town or city office”; and that it would violate the principles of representative government to permit the Court of Common Council to fill vacancies in its own ranks. Neither of these objections appears to us to be well founded.
For the purposes of candidacy and election, an aider-man elected from a single ward may be described as a ward officer or ward alderman; but after election and in the exercise of hk office, a ward alderman is as…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Crovatt v. MasonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1897
- Lambert v. BarrettSupreme Court of Virginia · 1913
- Oliver v. Mayor of Jersey CitySupreme Court of New Jersey · 1899
- State ex rel. Childs v. KiichliSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1893
- McFarland v. GordonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1898
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