Montana Supreme Court March 21, 1939, No. 7,938. (State Ex Rel. O'Connell v. Duncan)

MR. JUSTICE MORRIS

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an original proceeding by Brian D. O’Connell, who was re-elected sheriff of Lewis and Clark county November 8, 1938, and who now seeks a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent to issue to him a certificate showing his term of office to be for a period of four years, the respondent having issued to relator a certificate of election