[Download] "State Ex Rel. Cotter v. Leipner" by Supreme Court of Connecticut ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State Ex Rel. Cotter v. Leipner
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 30, 1951
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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This action is brought to determine the title to the office of judge of the City Court of Bridgeport. The following facts have been stipulated: The terms of office of the defendants' immediate predecessors (who, as it happens, were the present plaintiffs) expired under the law as it then was on June 30, 1949. The General Assembly having failed to appoint successors, there were vacancies in the office for the term commencing July 1, 1949. The governor, after the General Assembly adjourned, acting under the authority of 92 of the General Statutes, appointed the defendants to fill those vacancies and they accepted the appointments and took their oaths of office. Their respective commissions, following the phraseology of 92, stated that they were appointed judges of the City Court of Bridgeport ""to fill vacancy, from July 1, 1949, until the sixth Wednesday of the next session of the General Assembly and until a successor shall be appointed and shall have qualified.""