Case ID: wis_20/html/0062-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Cole, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

State ex rel. Dickinson vs. Brunner.
    
      Complaint — Action to try title to office.
    
    In an action to try title to a public office, it is sufficient if the complaint alleges that the relator, at the general election held, on &c., in the several towns and election districts of a certain named county, “was duly elected and chosen by the legal and qualified voters of said county,” to said office; and the whole number of votes given at such election for that office, with the number given for each candidate, need not be stated.
   Cole, J.

This is a suit instituted to try title to a public office. The complaint alleges, among other things, that the relator, at the general election held on the 8th of November, 1864, in the several towns and election districts of Lafayette county, was duly elected and cbosen by tlie legal and qualified electors of said county to tbe office of clerk of tbe board of supervisors, &c. Tbe complaint is demurred to on tbe ground tbat it does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, but states conclusions of law merely. Tbe cause bas been submitted without argument, and without briefs on either side. Tbe particular objection taken to tbe complaint we suppose to be, tbat it does not state bow many votes were given at tbe election for tbe office of clerk of tbe board of supervisors, and tbe number given for each candidate, so as to show tbat tbe relator received tbe greatest number and was entitled to tbe office. We are inclined to bold tbe complaint sufficient. Attorney General ex rel. v. Barstow, 4 Wis., 568; 2 Kernan, 434.

By the Court- — Tbe demurrer is overruled, with leave for tbe respondent to answer in twenty days.