Case Name: E. E. Venard v. E. A. Kampmeier
Court: Kansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Kansas
Decision Date: 1903-06-06
Citations: 67 Kan. 837
Docket Number: No. 13,560
Parties: E. E. Venard v. E. A. Kampmeier.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kansas Reports
Volume: 67
Pages: 837–838

Head Matter:
E. E. Venard v. E. A. Kampmeier.
No. 13,560.
(72 Pac. 1102.)
Original proceeding in quo warranto.
Opinion filed June 6, 1903.
Judgment for plaintiff.
J. W. Dana, Hale á¡ Maher, Nathan Oree, and Silas Porter, for plaintiff in error.
G. F. Hutchings, and T. A. Pollock, for defendant ’in error.

Opinion:
Per Guriam:
This is an action in the nature of quo warranto to determine whether plaintiff is entitled to hold the office of councilman in the city of Kansas City, Kan. The question involved.is, Does the charter act of 'cities of the first class passed in 1903 (Laws 1903, oh. 122) authorize the election of councilmen in such cities having more than 50,000 inhabitants ? In view of the conclusion reached in Gilbert v. Craddock, ante, page 346,72 Pac.869, we deem it unnecessary to enter into a lengthy discussion of the matter here involved. We are persuaded from all the considerations that it is necessarily inferable from the terms of the act that it was the intention of the legislature thereby to make the office of councilman an elective one. The plaintiff having received a majority of the votes cast for councilman in his ward at the election held on April 7, 1908, is therefore entitled to hold that office.
Judgment will be entered in his favor.
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