Attorney General ex rel. Cotter v. Lindsay

The attorney general, upon relation of judges of the recorder’s court of the city of Detroit, who are candidates for re-election, seeks by this proceeding to compel defendant city clerk to accept nominating petitions for the spring primary upon the claim that judges of that court must be elected at the spring election to be held April 2d; defendant’s refusal to accept and file such petitions being based on his claim that judges of the recorder’s court must be elected at the election to be held November 6th. The sole question for determination is whether Act No. 364, Pub. Acts 1921 (Comp. Laws…