Case Name: STATE EX REL. J. A. A. BURNQUIST v. WILLIAM L. WELTER AND ANOTHER
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1941-03-07
Citations: 209 Minn. 499
Docket Number: No. 32,851
Parties: STATE EX REL. J. A. A. BURNQUIST v. WILLIAM L. WELTER AND ANOTHER.
Judges: 
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 209
Pages: 499–500

Head Matter:
STATE EX REL. J. A. A. BURNQUIST v. WILLIAM L. WELTER AND ANOTHER.
March 7, 1941.
No. 32,851.
J. A. A. Burnquist, Attorney General, and Edward J. Devitt, Assistant Attorney General, for relator.
M. J. Daly, Jr., for respondents.
Reported in 296 N. W. 582.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This matter is before us upon our alternative writ, in the nature of quo warranto, to test the right of respondents to hold respectively the offices of judge and clerk of the municipal court for the village of Perham.
The attempt to establish that court was made by Ex. Sess. L. 1933-1934, c. 35. Minn. Const. art. 6, § 1, requires a two-thirds vote of the legislature to establish such a court. It appears from the journal of the senate, Senate Journal, Ex. Sess. 1933-1931, page 291, that the bill in question did not have on its supposed passage the favorable vote of two-thirds of the senate. (It had the affirmative vote of only 10 out of 67 members of the senate.) Therefore it never became law and is a nullity. State ex rel. Eastland v. Gould, 31 Minn. 189, 17 N. W. 276.
Therefore a writ of ouster must issue.
So ordered.