People ex rel. Attorney General v. Burbank
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Twelfth District, County of San Francisco. This was an action to try the right to the office of District Judge of the Fourth Judicial District.
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Appeal from the Twelfth District, County of San Francisco. This was an action to try the right to the office of District Judge of the Fourth Judicial District. The facts, as stated in the opinion of the Court, are as follows : In 1852, at the general election, Delos Lake was elected Judge of the Fourth District for six years from first of January, 1853. In June, 1855, he resigned, and the Governor appointed J. S. Hager to fill the vacancy until the election in 1855. In July, 1855, the Governor issued his proclamation, in pursuance of law, for the election in September ; in which proclamation…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
More in deference to the earnest and ingenious argument of the respondent’s counsel, and the interest of the question, than from any sense of the intrinsic difficulties of the subject, we have thought it *384proper to go into a Ml discussion of the points presented by this record, and to a reconsideration of our former decisions upon this matter. The facts may be thus briefly stated : In 1852, at the general election, Delos Lake was elected Judge of the Fourth District, for six years from first of January, 1853. In June, 1855, he resigned, and the Governor appointed J. S. Hager to fill the…
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