State ex rel. Diepenbrock v. Gates

This is an order to show cause why proceedings by quo warranto shall not be instituted to determine whether the relator or the respondent was elected to the office of alderman of the city of Eed Wing, at the city election, April 26,1886. The charter of the city (chapter 4, § 1; Sp. Laws 1876, c. 28, § 5, p. 97) provides that the city council shall “be the judges of the election and qualification of their own members.” The charter of the city of St. Paul contains a similar provision, and in the case of State v. Dowlan, 33 Minn. 536, (24 N. W. Rep. 188,) the judges of this court who heard the…