Commonwealth v. Swasey
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Information in the nature of a quo warranto, filed February 15, 1881, by the Attorney General in behalf of the Commonwealth, alleging that the defendant was usurping the office of city physician of the city of New Bedford. Hearing before Morton, J., who reported the case for the determination of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion.
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Information in the nature of a quo warranto, filed February 15, 1881, by the Attorney General in behalf of the Commonwealth, alleging that the defendant was usurping the office of city physician of the city of New Bedford. Hearing before Morton, J., who reported the case for the determination of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion. The case was argued in October 1881, by F. A. Milliken, for the Commonwealth, and by W. C. Parker, for the defendant; and was reargued in October 1882, by Milliken, for the Commonwealth, and by H. E. Swasey & G. R. Swasey, for the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
It appears that, on January 28,1879, the mayor of the city of New Bedford nominated to the board of aldermen for city physician John H. Mackie, which nomination was confirmed by the board of aldermen; that at the same time he nominated two members of the board of health, one for one year and one for two years, which nominations were also confirmed; that the board, composed of these three persons, organized on the first *539Monday of February 1879; and that, on the happening of vacancies in the offices respectively of the two members of the board, other than the city physician, new members have…
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