This proceeding is a dispute between respondent Louis Harmin, Mayor of the Village of Monticello, and petitioners, three of the village's trustees. It involves the fundamental question of whether the village's board of trustees has the sole authority to appoint persons to fill the positions of village clerk, village treasurer and village attorney or whether such authority rests with the Mayor subject to approval by the village board. The situation came to a head at the annual...
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