97 Neb. 788 | Neb. | 1915
At the general election in the fall of 1912 the plaintiff was elected to the office of county commissioner for the third commissioner’s district of the county of Dawson. Dawson county at that time was not under township organization and had three commissioners. Under the law as it then existed one county commissioner was elected each year for the term of three years. Best v. Moorhead, 96 Neb. 602; Saling v. Bahensky, p. 789 post. The term, therefore, for which the plaintiff was elected would expire in January, 1916. The constitutional amendment of 1912 provided for biennial elections (Const, art. XVI, sec. 13), and the legislature of 1913 enacted a general statute for the purpose of harmonizing the statute then existing with the constitutional amendment. It repealed some of the former acts. It provided that, in counties not under township organization having three commissioners, “two commissioners shall be elected in the year 1914 and every fourth year thereafter, and one commissioner shall be elected in the year 1916 and every fourth year thereafter.”
This is the qnly question presented and discussed in the briefs, and the trial court having held in accordance with the views above expressed, its judgment is
Affirmed.