State ex rel. Martin v. Ryan

Respondents are fire and police commissioners of South Ornaba, and tbis is an action in tbe nature of quo warranto, brought originally in tbis court, to remove them from office under tbe statutory provision that such officers may be removed for wilful failure to enforce any law which it is made their duty to enforce. Comp. St. 1911, ch. 71, sec. la.

Jurisdiction to oust them is now challenged on the ground that the term of office to which the charges of dereliction of duty apply has expired. They insist that the information refers alone to failure to enforce the law during the term which…