The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-05
WRIT OF QUO WARRANT0
TOWN AGENCY PROBLElI NOW IN
 COURT.

 Philip Hugo Instituted Proceedings Yes
 terday--Order Issued for Robert F. Bald
 win to Show Cause Why He Continues to
 Exercise the Duties of the Oflice-Wrlt
 Returnable December II.
 Philip Hugo instituted quo warranto proceedings yesterday in the superior court before Judge Shumway against Robert D. Baldwin to determine who is entitled to hold the office of town agent. Judge Shumway issued an or der requiring MT. Baldwin to show cause why he holds the office of town agent, on or before Friday morning, December Il.
 The writ, which Is signed, by State Attorney Williams, contains four alle- gations, the first two being merely de- scriptive of the person Philip Hugo) instituting the proceedings and the reasons for the said action. Continu- ing it sayst
 At the first town meeting on the first Tuesday of December, 1896, at the an nual town meeting of 1896 for the cleo tion of selectmen and other town otfi- cers in accordance with the provision of law, said Philip Hugo was voted for for the office of first selectman and on said day and at said town meeting he was the person first named on the ballots cast for the persons elected for select men or any of them and on the second day of December, 1896, the moderator of the town meeting made return to the town clerk of the town that of the bal lots cast for selectman at said town meeting the said Hugo was first named on 1922 of said ballots and that one Robert E. Baldwin was first named on 7,694 of said ballots and on December 2, 1896 the said Hugo took the oath pre- scribed by law to said office and a cer- tificate to said effect was filed in the l office of the town clerk of said town | on said last mentioned day and he, the said Hugo, did, on December ?, 1896, accept the office of first selectman of l said town and claimed to be elected as | first selectman of said town and on | the said December 2, 1896, he, the said | Hugo, informed the said Robert E | Baldwin that he, the said Hugo, had been elected as aforseaid and had ac- cepted said office and had taken the oath prescribed by law and demanded of said Baldwin the keys of the office l of the sad first selectman and that the
 custody of said office and it's contents be delivered to said Hugo, that he, the said Hugo. be allowed to exercise ths rights, powers and duties pertaining tc the said office of first selectman.
 Notwithstanding his, the said Hugo's election to said office and acceptance thereof, the said Baldwin of said towr
 of New Haven on December ?, 1896, and thence continuously hitherto withou claim or right, has used and exercised
 and still does use and exercise the of fee of first selectman of the town O New Haven for the term aforesaid il place of said Hugo and to have, ust
 and enjoy all the liberty, rights, privi leges and franchises to said office per
 taining; concerning which said office liberties, rights, privileges and fran
 chises the said Baldwin for all th' time aforesaid has usurped and doe' still usurp at said New Haven, to tht
 damage and prejudice of the right O said town of New Haven and said rela tor and also against the peace of tn, state.