State Ex Rel. Schorr v. Viner

Counsel for demurrants claim that, since relator confessed in his petition that he was chairman of the campaign committee while acting as counsel for the transit commission, such an admission in the petition contained an intendment that he “directly or indirectly” solicited or received campaign contributions in violation of Section 4, Article 5, of the city charter, and thereby gave cause for forfeiture of his office as legal counsel.

Counsel for relator counters that argument by presenting several reasons why the charter article'does not apply to -the relator. One of the reasons, and perhaps…