Sylvia Lake Co. v. Northern Ore Co.

We are of the opinion that the judgments and orders appealed from should be affirmed, notwithstanding the claim of the appellants that they are invalid if they were rendered by Justice Borst after he became seventy years of age. Whatever may be said of his assuming to act after he became seventy years of age, he was, at least so far as third parties are concerned, a de facto justice. He was elected at the general election held in November, 1913, for a term of fourteen years or until the 31st day of December next succeeding the time when he became seventy years of age. Within ten days after…