State ex rel. Brayton v. Merriman

By the Ooivrt,

Cole, J.

This was an information in the nature .of a quo wa/rremto, filed by the Attorney-General, upon the relation of James O. Brayton and Alonzo H. Waldo, citizens of the county of J efferson, to inquire by what right the respondent uses and exercises the office of clerk of the board of supervisors of said county. The respondent in his plea to the information, substantially alleges that prior to the *1520tb day of March, 1856, tlie county of Jefferson was divided into, and composed of, the towns of Aztalan, Cold Spring, Concord, Farmington, Hebron, Ironia, Jefferson, Koshkom-ing,…