State ex rel. McMahon v. Carlin

This is an action in quo warranto to test the right of the relator and defendant respectively to hold the office of assessor in the eighth ward of the city of Cleveland. The relator claims to hold over because the defendant who was elected to succeed him in said office is disqualified by non-citizenship. Under Revised Statutes of Ohio, Sections 6762-6764 (General Code, Sections 12305-12307), the relator can not maintain this action unless he claims, with some color of ground, to be entitled to the office. His claim is evidently founded on Section 8, but he has apparently overlooked Section 1518, Revised Statutes (General Code, Section 3352), which provides that a vacancy and not a holdover results when there is no duly elected and qualified successor to a ward or precinct assessor. The petition is therefore dismissed for want of jurisdiction.