Riley v. Holmer

— Plaintiff in Error, being a married male minor of the age of eighteen years, exhibited his petition in mandamus against the Defendant in Error as supervisor of Registration of Dade County, Florida, to require that he (petitioner) be permitted to register as a prerequisite to vote in the primary and general elections to be held in 1930. A demurrer to the alternative writ was sustained and the writ dismissed. Writ of error was taken to that judgment.

This suit was brought on the theory that the fact of his marriage emancipated the petitioner from the disability of non-age in so far as it…