State ex rel. O'Connell v. Nelson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Scott, J.

O’Connell, the relator, was in December, 1892, elected road overseer of a district designated as 18, in King county, and qualified and entered upon his duties. On the 7th day of January following, the county commissioners made some change in certain of the road districts, by virtue of which that part of district 18 in which O’Connell resided was cut off therefrom, and was included in an adjoining district numbered 19, whereupon said commissioners appointed the respondent road overseer of said district 18, as changed. Upon the latter’s assuming…