Supreme Court of Connecticut November 10, 1920 (State Ex Rel. Alton v. Waterman)

Beach, J.

Two objections are made to the respondent’s plea based on the charter and ordinance already quoted: that the office of alderman from the sixth ward is not a “town or city office”; and that it would violate the principles of representative government to permit the Court of Common Council to fill vacancies in its own ranks. Neither of these objections appears to us to be well founded.