Heald v. Payson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Edwin O. Heald, Pet’r. v. Clarence D. Payson et als. On exceptions by respondent. Edward M. Benner v. Clarence D. Payson et al. Petitioner, as in equity.
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Edwin O. Heald, Pet’r. v. Clarence D. Payson et als. On exceptions by respondent. Edward M. Benner v. Clarence D. Payson et al. Petitioner, as in equity. In the case of Benner v. Payson et al., which was a petition as in equity under Revised Statutes, Chapter 6, Section 70, the petitioner claimed that he was legally elected to the office of Register of Probate for Knox County at the September Election of 1912. It is agreed that any evidence in Heald v. Payson may be considered in Benner v. Payson and any evidence in Benner v. Payson may be considered in Heald v. Payson, provided same is…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, J.
The first of these cases is a petition for mandamus to compel the ward clerk of ward 3 in Rockland to correct the record of the votes cast for the democratic candidates for register of probate, at the primary election held June 17, 1912. The peremptory writ was awarded, and the respondent excepted.
The second case is a petition, as in equity, under R. S., Chap. 6, Sect. 70, wherein the petitioner claims that he was legally elected to the office of register of probate for Knox County, at the September election, 1912. The case comes up on report. The two cases relate, in effect, to the same…
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