Baxter v. Latimer
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus by Charles S. Baxter to compel William G. Latimer, colonel of the 4th infantry of the Michigan National Guard, to vacate an order calling for an election of field officers. Edwin M. Irish, adjutant general, Henry B. Lothrop, and others intervened.
1Opinion of the CourtLong, J.
The relator asks a mandamus to compel the respondent to vacate an order calling an election to be held by the officers of the 4th regiment to elect field officers, and to recognize the relator as major of said regiment. The petition sets out, substantially, that at a regular meeting of the officers of said regiment held October 5, 1897, for the purpose of electing field officers, there were present 27 officers, being all the officers of said regiment duly commissioned; that George L. Winckler was present, and claimed to be a second lieutenant, under a commission dated September 21, 1897, and…
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