26 Tex. Civ. App. 521 - State Ex Rel. Maxwell v. Crumbaugh’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
September 1986
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“A public office is not “property,” within the meaning of the constitutional provision that “no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.” It is a mere public agency, revocable according to the will and appointment of the people, as exercised in the constitution and the laws enacted in conformity therewith. Moore v. Strickling (W.Va.) [ 46 W.Va. 515 ], 33 S.E. 274 , 50 L.R.A. 279 . In the case cited the court in its opinion makes .. . the following quotation: “It is impossible to conceive how, under our form of government, a person can own or have a title to a governmental office. Offices are created for the administration of public affairs. When a person is inducted into an office he thereby becomes empowered to exercise its powers and perform its duties, not for his, but for the public, benefit. It would be a misnomer and a perversion of terms to say that an incumbent owned an office or had any title to it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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