Crovatt v. Mason
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petition for quo warranto. Before Judge Sweat. Glynn county. February 4, 1897. Crovatt presented his petition praying for leave to file the same as information in the nature of a writ of quo warranto, claiming that in law he was the duly elected mayor of the city of Brunswick, and that Mason was illegally holding the office.
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Petition for quo warranto. Before Judge Sweat. Glynn county. February 4, 1897. Crovatt presented his petition praying for leave to file the same as information in the nature of a writ of quo warranto, claiming that in law he was the duly elected mayor of the city of Brunswick, and that Mason was illegally holding the office. Upon the hearing the prayer was denied, and Crovatt excepted. ■ The case was submitted to the judge upon an agreement as to the facts, from which the following appears: At the annual election for aldermen for the city, held on the second Saturday in December, 1895, Mason…
1Opinion of the CourtLittle, J.
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The application for leave to file information in the nature of ■a writ of quo warranto, which was made in this case, was denied generally, by the judge of the Brunswick circuit. We reverse that judgment, and in doing so have considered all the grounds which were urged here, both by the briefs and in the argument in support of the judgment rendered below, as well as the objections urged thereto by the plaintiff in error; and will now give the conclusions to which such consideration led,.
1. It is contended by the plaintiff in error, that the defendant was…
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