State ex rel. Morrison v. Freeland

I respectfully but emphatically dissent from the holding of the majority as expressed in point 1 of the syllabus in these cases. In my opinion the legal proposition there enunciated is manifestly unsound in principle and is completely unsupported by any applicable convincing text or case authority.

Though the precise question whether a public officer who is a member of a municipal council or other administrative board or tribunal composed of, several members, all of whom are public officers but each of whom holds or occupies a separate public office, may, as a person interested, under Section…