Farrington v. Turner

This is a quo warranto proceeding, brought by the Attorney General in behalf of the relator to ascertain the rights of the respondent to the office of sheriff in the county of Ogemaw. The respondent is the present incumbent, and claims to have been elected to the office at the general election in November, 1882. Issue was joined at the April term of this Court, and sent to the circuit court for the county of Ogemaw for trial on the facts. The trial was had by jury, and the issue as made up, together with the jury’s findings at the trial, are now before us upon this hearing.

The whole issue, as…