Kinneen v. Wells

The case at bar is an action of tort against the registrars of voters in the city of Cambridge to recover damages for wrongfully refusing, as the plaintiff alleges, to register him. as a voter for the state election of 1886. The judge who presided at the trial in the Superior Court sustained the demurrer to the plaintiff’s declaration, and reported the case for the determination of this court.

• The case raises but a single question, although one of much importance. The defendants refused to register the plaintiff because he had been naturalized within thirty days previously to his application…