Fyfe v. Kent County Clerk
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus by Andrew Fyfe to compel Ralph A. Mosher, clerk of Kent county, to place relator’s name on the ballot for primary election as delegate to the constitutional convention.
1Per curiam
The legislature of 1907 passed an act providing for a convention for the purpose of making a general revision of the Constitution. (Act No. 272, Pub. Acts 1907.) It provides for 96 delegates, consisting of 3 *350from each senatorial district. The compensation provided is ten dollars per day. The relator, a senator of the legislature, presented the necessary petition to the respondent to place his name on the ballot for primary election as delegate to the constitutional convention. He declined to place his name on the ballot, upon the ground that he is a member of the present legislature which…
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