Diffie v. Cowan

Appellant insists it was error to sustain the motion to dissolve, because he says (1) appellees at the time had not filed an answer to the petition for the writ; (2) the Legislature could not confer on the mayor and aldermen power it undertook to confer on them to suspend, try, convict, and remove elective officers of the city; (3) if the Legislature had such power it did not intend to confer it so far as aldermen were concerned; and (4) if the Legislature could and did confer such power, it did not appear in the charges preferred against appellant that he had done any of the things specified…