Brophy v. Suffolk County Apportionment Commissioners

The third report of the apportionment commissioners elected in accordance with St. 1913, c. 835, § 390, attempting to divide Suffolk County into representative districts, and to apportion among them the representatives assigned to that county, is attacked by these proceedings * as contrary to art. 21 of the Amendments to the Constitution.

The general principles by which such an apportionment must be made in order to conform to that amendment to the Constitution have been stated at length in the two recent decisions in which it has been necessary to declare void the two earlier reports of these…