Pinkerton v. Staninger
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus. Relator applied for mandamus to compel respondents to convene as a board of canvassers, and canvass all the votes cast at a certain election held in said county upon the question of the removal of the county-seat to the village of Lewiston, their prior determination that said' proposition had not carried being based upon the rejection of the vote of a certain township.
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
The respondents, acting as a board of canvassers under How. Stat. § 491, rejected the vote of the township of Albert on the ground of fraud.
It has been settled by the repeated decisions of this Court that the decision of the supervisors in canvassing and determining the vote upon the question of the removal of the county-seat is conclusive, and that no judicial review of their action is provided by law. Attorney General v. Board of Supervisors, 33 Mich. 289; Attorney General v. Board of Supervisors, 34 Id. 211; People v. County Treasurer, 41 Id. 6; Hipp v. Board of Supervisors, 62 Id. 456;…
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