ATTEMPT TO OUST MAYOR
MONTREAL, Feb. 28
Long litigation by which the courts were asked to disqualify tho Mayor of Verdun, Mr. diaries Allen, has finally been decided three years after the election complained of and' nearly one year after his second election to the same office. In “quo warranto” proceedings, Walter Wilson, former paymaster of Verdun, asked that the Mayor be deprived of office, on the ground that at the time of his election in March, 1929, he did not possess sufficient immoveable pfopertv to qualify him to hold the office. Tho courts have now decided that the'Mayor was entitled to hold the office on flie property which he offered as his qualification.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17739, 28 March 1932, Page 6
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114ATTEMPT TO OUST MAYOR Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17739, 28 March 1932, Page 6
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