State ex rel. Childs v. Routh

On the first Monday of April, 1893, William G. Goffe, a practicing physician, was duly appointed health officer of the city of Duluth. He accepted the office, and continued to discharge the duties thereof until March 10, 1895, when the respondent, Walter W. Routh, who was also a practicing physician, was, as he claims, duly appointed such health officer*by a majority vote of all of the members of the common council of such city, by virtue of the provisions of Sp. Laws 1887, c. 2, as amended by Sp. Laws 1891, c. 55, and the health ordinance of the city, approved February 25, 1895. The…