Hogan v. Collins
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two PETITIONS, filed respectively June 2,1902, and July 9, 1902, the first for a writ of certiorari addressed to the mayor of the city of Boston, and the second for a writ of mandamus directed to the election commissioners of that city and to the city treasurer, seeking to review the action of the mayor in removing the petitioner from the office of election commissioner, and to have the respondents named in the second petition ordered to recognize the petitioner as election…
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Two PETITIONS, filed respectively June 2,1902, and July 9, 1902, the first for a writ of certiorari addressed to the mayor of the city of Boston, and the second for a writ of mandamus directed to the election commissioners of that city and to the city treasurer, seeking to review the action of the mayor in removing the petitioner from the office of election commissioner, and to have the respondents named in the second petition ordered to recognize the petitioner as election commissioner in place of David B. Shaw, one of the respondents. The petition for certiorari was dismissed by Lathrop,…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
By St. 1895, c. 449, entitled “An Act to revise the charter of the city of Boston,” an election department was created, to be in charge of four election .commissioners, who should be “ so selected that two will always be of the political party which at the annual state election next preceding their appointment cast the largest vote for governor”; and after the first appointments were made, then “ annually . . . one such commissioner shall be appointed . . . for the term of four years, beginning with the first day of May in the year of his appointment.” “ Said officers shall be citizens and…
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