State ex rel. Nichols v. Kiewel
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Writ in the nature of quo warranto issued from the supreme court upon the relation of the attorney general and J. A. Nichols, a taxpayer of the city of Little Falls, requiring respondents, the common council and officers of said city, to show by what right they exercised their respective offices.
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
This is a proceeding in the nature of quo warranto, on the relation of the attorney general, to oust the respective respondents from the exercise of certain claimed corporate franchises under the provisions of an alleged new charter of the city of Little Falls.
The admitted facts are these: The city of Little Falls was, and still is, incorporated by virtue of Sp. Laws 1889, c. 8, unless proceedings taken under the provisions of Laws 1899, c. 351, as amended by Laws 1901, c. 323, to frame and adopt such new charter, are valid. In November, 1901, the judges of the judicial district in which the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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