State ex rel. Maxey v. Swindell

Appellant’s relators, Maxey and O’Keefe, applied to the circuit court for a writ of mandate against the appellee as mayor of the city of Plymouth, Indiana, to compel him to recognize each of them as members of the city council of said city, and to permit them to exercise the duties of such councilmen, they alleging that they had been legally appointed and qualified as members of said council from the alleged fourth ward of said city, which ward they allege had been duly and lawfully created by a certain alleged ordinance enacted by the common council of said city, August 27, 1894.

Appellee…