Ross v. Crane

These are petitions for mandamus against the city clerk of Quincy; in the first the petitioner seeks to restrain the respondent from striking his name from the roll of registered voters of Quincy, and, in the second, to compel the respondent to receive and file nomination papers *30appropriate to place the name of the petitioner upon the ballot as a candidate for mayor at an election to be held in Quincy on May 21, 1935. At the hearing parties agreed upon the material facts as disclosed by pleadings and the cases were reported by the single justice without decision. The question thus presented…