Sears v. Treasurer & Receiver General

The first of these cases is a petition by eleven citizens of the Commonwealth “interested in the execution of laws” against the Treasurer and Receiver General and the commissioner of public welfare, praying for a writ of mandamus to command the respondents to refrain from paying out any money or taking any action whatever under a purported law proposed by the initiative which was voted upon favorably at the State election in November, 1950, and which would strike out c. 118A of the General Laws in its entirety and substitute therefor a new c. 118A containing many provisions substantially…