State, Rourke v. Barbieri, Town Clerk

The prayers for relief requested in the within action are of two kinds: Application claiming a writ of mandamus requiring the town clerk of New Haven to place the question of adoption or rejection of a council-manager charter before the electorate of New Haven on November 4, 1952, and an injunction restraining the town clerk from calling a special election for that purpose on September 16, 1952.

Although the action is brought in the name of the state's attorney for New Haven County in compliance with a law which is archaic in nature, the actual plaintiff in interest is Joseph M. Rourke of New…