People ex rel. Attorney General v. Haggerty

To an information in the nature of a quo warranto, filed in this court according to law by the attorney general against the respondent, to answer to the people by what warrant he held the office of a member of the board of control of the State prison at Jackson, a plea *683was entered of justification and right under an appointment by . the then governor of the State of Michigan, December 20, 1910, to fill a vacancy, upon which appointment a commission issued to him on that date; that he at once took and filed his oath of office and entered upon its duties, and so continued until January 12,…