MR. JUSTICE BROWN delivered the opinion of the court.
We are confronted upon the threshold of this case with the inquiry whether there is a federal question involved; if not, the only disposition we can make of it is to dismiss it for want of jurisdiction. The object of the proceeding is to try the respective titles of the relator and the respondent to the office of sheriff of Buchanan County, Missouri. Respondent relies upon the fact that he received a majority of...
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