Madden v. Board of Election Commissioners

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondents to certify the election of the petitioner to the office of a representative in the General Court for the Fifteenth Suffolk District. The case is submitted on agreed facts. They show that the voters of the Fifteenth Suffolk District were entitled at the election on November 4, 1924, to elect two representatives to the General Court. The names of William A. Canty and Joseph M. Ward and no others were printed on the official ballot, each name being followed by the word “ Democratic.” William A. Canty died early in the morning of…