People ex rel. Foley v. Kopplekom
Michigan Supreme Court
Quo Warranto. The information in this cause was filed to test the right to the office of Sheriff, for Houghton county. An issue of fact having been joined, the cause was referred to the Houghton Circuit for trial. ■The cause was tried without a jury. The court below found that the defendant was not guilty of intruding into the said office. No exceptions were taken in the court below. The report of the circuit judge being now before the court, the defendant moved for judgment.
1Opinion of the Court
Graves J.
It appears from the' finding in this case that there has never been any valid or complete registration of voters, or any legal board of registration in the township of Franklin in the county of Houghton, since the organization of the township in 1864; and that at the general election, on the 6th of November, 1866, in the several townships of said county, whereat the relator and respondent were respectively voted for, for the office of Sheriff, a large number of electors, in- said township of Franklin, without having been registered, for the reason that there was no acting board of…
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