Feibleman v. State ex rel. Brown

This was an information by the State, on the relation of the prosecuting attorney, charging the appellant with usurping the office of justice of, the peace in Center township, in Marion county, and asking for his ouster and exclusion therefrom.

The appellant answered to the effect that the board • of commissioners of Marion county, on January 15th, 1884, *517made an order fixing the number of justices of the peace in Center township at five; that on and before the April election in 1884, there were three vacancies in said office in that township; that the appellant, at said election, was elected…