Attorney General v. McOsker
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two informations, filed on January 24, 1908, in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Middlesex, by the Attorney General at the relation of two citizens and legal voters of Lowell, members of a political party known and designated as the independence league, to try the title of the defendants respectively to the office of a member of the board of registrars and to the office of a member of the board of police of that city.
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Two informations, filed on January 24, 1908, in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Middlesex, by the Attorney General at the relation of two citizens and legal voters of Lowell, members of a political party known and designated as the independence league, to try the title of the defendants respectively to the office of a member of the board of registrars and to the office of a member of the board of police of that city. There was a hearing before Morton, J., who reserved the cases for the consideration of the full court. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
These are two informations in the nature of a quo warranta, to try the title of Hugh C. McOsker to the office of a member of the board of registrars of voters of the city of Lowell, and the title of Frank K. Stearns to the office of a member of the board of police of that city. Each of the statutes under which the appointments of the defendants were made, respectively, requires that the members of the board shall, as equally as may be, represent the two leading political parties ^.t the preceding State election. R. L. c. 100, § 3. St. 1907, c. 560, § 27. In making these appointments the mayor…
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