State ex rel. Wilson v. Pontius

Citations

• 78 Ohio St. (N.S.) 353

Syllabus

<p>Article XVII, amendment to Constitution — Act of April 16, '1906 (98 O. L., 271) — Term of sheriff extended — Sheriff not ineligible to succeed himself — Article X, Section 3, of Constitution.</p> <p>The object of the constitutional amendment, Article XVII, and of the act of April 16, 1906 (98 O. L., 27Í), passed pursuanj: thereto, was the continuance in office of the incumbents, during the interregnum occasioned thereby, and a sheriff whose term of office was extended under the act, is not • ineligible, under Section 3, of Article X, of the Constitution, to succeed himself for another term.</p>