State Ex Rel. Pickrell v. Senner

UDALL, Vice Chief Justice.

This matter came to the Supreme Court on a petition filed by the State of Arizona ex rel. Robert W. Pickrell, the Attorney General, for a writ of quo warranto by which the petitioner asked that the office of the respondent, George F. Senner, as Arizona Corporation Commissioner, be declared vacant for violation of A.R.S. § 38-296. This statute reads :

“A. No incumbent of an elective office, whether holding by election or appointment, shall be eligible for nomination or election to any office other than the office so held, nor shall the nomination papers of such…