State ex rel. Husting v. Board of State Canvassers
Wisconsin Supreme Court
This was a mandamus action instituted by an alleged successful candidate, at the November election, 1914, for the office of United States senator for Wisconsin, to compel certain boards -of county canvassers to complete the canvass of original returns from the several election precincts in their respective counties without waiting upon the result of recount proceedings under-sec. 86 of the Statutes, and to deliver the duly certified results to their respective county clerks;…
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This was a mandamus action instituted by an alleged successful candidate, at the November election, 1914, for the office of United States senator for Wisconsin, to compel certain boards -of county canvassers to complete the canvass of original returns from the several election precincts in their respective counties without waiting upon the result of recount proceedings under-sec. 86 of the Statutes, and to deliver the duly certified results to their respective county clerks; and to compel such county clerks to, thereupon, transmit such certified results, in due form, to the secretary of state…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinions were filed January 12, 1914:
Conformable to the purpose as aforesaid of following at a later time the decision by an opinion covering the questions involved in the cause and discussed by counsel in submitting it, this has been agreed to so far as stated impersonally:
Maeshall, J.
Upon the court in this cause devolved the duty of determining the legislative intent, if possible, with any reasonable degree of certainty, embodied in ch. 328, Laws ■of 1911 (sec. 86, Stats.), and if that should be accomplished, perhaps, to determine to what extent the enactment is…
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