Loring v. Young
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition for a writ of mandamus, filed on February 7, 1921, by Augustus P. Loring, who, with Benjamin Loring Young and Essex S. Abbott, comprised the joint special committee of the General Court of 1920 appointed under a resolve authorizing and directing the committee to prepare for the printers the revision of the General Laws of the Commonwealth and in connection therewith to provide for the printing in the first volume thereof of the Constitutions of the United States and…
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Petition for a writ of mandamus, filed on February 7, 1921, by Augustus P. Loring, who, with Benjamin Loring Young and Essex S. Abbott, comprised the joint special committee of the General Court of 1920 appointed under a resolve authorizing and directing the committee to prepare for the printers the revision of the General Laws of the Commonwealth and in connection therewith to provide for the printing in the first volume thereof of the Constitutions of the United States and of the Commonwealth, the petitioner alleging in substance “ that the respondents [the members of the committee other…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The General Court of 1920, by Res. c. 86, created a joint special committee to provide amongst other matters for the printing and distribution of the General Laws-and “ the printing of the Federal and State Constitutions in the first volume ” thereof.
The parties have treated that committee as performing purely ministerial functions, not partaking in any particular of those of the legislative department. The cases are considered on that assumption.
The single question presented is whether that committee shall print as the Constitution of the Commonwealth the Constitution of 1780 with the…
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