Sharpe v. Registrars of Voters of Northampton

The judge in the Superior Court ordered that a writ of certiorari issue against the respondent registrars of voters of Northampton to quash their certification of names on a referendum petition brought under G. L. c. 44, § 8A, 1 which requires that the petition be signed by “registered voters of the city.” The appellants 2 from that order (Hogan and Murphy) are two of the three registered voters who initiated the referendum petition and who, “no objection being made,” had been allowed to “intervene as parties respondent and to defend against the petition.” Hogan also appealed “as he is a city…