Case Name: State of Nebraska, ex rel. Porter Donnell, relator, v. Arthur v. Offill, County Clerk, respondent
Court: Nebraska Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Nebraska
Decision Date: 1905-10-19
Citations: 74 Neb. 670
Docket Number: No. 14,478
Parties: State of Nebraska, ex rel. Porter Donnell, relator, v. Arthur v. Offill, County Clerk, respondent.
Judges: Barnes, J., dissents.
Reporter: Nebraska Reports
Volume: 74
Pages: 670–671

Head Matter:
State of Nebraska, ex rel. Porter Donnell, relator, v. Arthur v. Offill, County Clerk, respondent.
Filed October 19, 1905.
No. 14,478.
Original application for a writ of mandamus to compel respondent to file certificate of nomination and place name of relator on election ballot.
Writ allowed.
H. M. Sinclair, for relator.
Norris Brown, Attorney General, W. T. Thompson and Edwin E. Squires, for respondent.
Fawcett & Abbott, amid curiae.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Writ of mandamus allowed. Opinion to be filed later.
Barnes, J., dissents.
The following opinion was filed December 6, 1905:
Sedgwick, J.
This is an original application for a mandamus against the county clerk of Buffalo county to compel him to receive and file the nomination of relator to the office of supervisor for the sixth district of said county. The county clerk refused to receive and file the certificate upon the sole ground that there could be no election of supervisor at the ensuing election, because section 1, chapter 54, laws of 1905, provides: "The supervisors selected and ap pointed as provided in this act shall hold their respective offices until the next general election occurring upon the even year folloAving their selections or appointment, and until their successors have been duly elected and qualified." This act of the legislature Avould extend the terms of the county supervisors of the state for another year, and Avas held to be in conflict Avith the constitution for the reasons given in State v. Plasters, ante, p. 652.
Other objections Avere made to the constitutionality of the act, but it is not thought that their discussion here Avould be of permanent value.
The peremptory AVrit Avas alloAved as prayed.