Townsend v. McDonald

Wallace Townsend, for himself and other legal voters, seeks by mandamus to compel Ed. F. McDonald, as Secretary of State, to file a petition for a referendum on act 345 passed by the last Legislature. Act 345 is entitled “An act to provide for the creation of county boards of election commissioners and the appointment of election judges and clerks.” Acts of 1931, p. 1117. The Secretary of State refused to file the petition because there was not a full and correct copy of the act attached to it.

Our Initiative and Referendum Amendment to tile Constitution was adopted at the general election in…