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  "name": "STATE ex rel. JULIA M. ALEXANDER v. EDGAR W. PHARR",
  "name_abbreviation": "State ex rel. Alexander v. Pharr",
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    "judges": [
      "Clare, C. J., did not sit."
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    "parties": [
      "STATE ex rel. JULIA M. ALEXANDER v. EDGAR W. PHARR."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThis Court is without jurisdiction, because the action is to try the title to a seat in the General Assembly of North Carolina, and the Constitution of the State (Art. II, sec. 22) provides \u201cEach House (of the General Assembly) shall be judge of the qualifications and elections of its own members,\u201d thereby withdrawing the inquiry from the consideration of the courts.\nThis is the construction given to a similar section of the Constitution of the United States in Britt v. Board of Canvassers, 172 N. C., 797.\nAffirmed.\nClare, C. J., did not sit.",
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        "author": "Per Curiam."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Julia M. Alexander for plaintiff.",
      "James A. Bell, Plummer Stewart, and Thaddeus A. Adams for defendant."
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    "head_matter": "STATE ex rel. JULIA M. ALEXANDER v. EDGAR W. PHARR.\n(Filed 5 May, 1920.)\nConstitutional Law \u2014 Quo Warranto \u2014 Statutes\u2014Legislative Powers\u2014 Courts \u2014 Title\u2014General Assembly.\nThe Constitution of our State withdraws from the consideration of our courts the question of title involved in a contest for a seat in the General Assembly, (Art. II, sec. 22), and an action of .quo warranto will not lie under our statute. Rev., sec. 827, 828 (Consolidated Statutes, secs. 473, 474).\nClark, C. J., not sitting.\nCivil actioN, transferred by the clerk of MecKLenbueg to Harding, J., as upon demurrer.\nThis is an action of quo warranto.\nThe plaintiff states the ease in her brief as follows: \u201cThis is a civil action of quo warranto, instituted by Julia M. Alexander, by leave of the Attorney General of North Carolina, under secs. 821 and 828, Revisal 1905 (secs. 473 and 474, Consolidated Statutes), and brought by the plaintiff to test the validity of the title of the defendant, Edgar ~W. Pharr, to the office of member of the House of Representatives of General Assembly of North Carolina, and to inquire into and determine the right of the defendant to hold said office.\u201d\nThere was judgment in favor of the defendant, and the plaintiff appealed.\nJulia M. Alexander for plaintiff.\nJames A. Bell, Plummer Stewart, and Thaddeus A. Adams for defendant."
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