McGlue v. County Commissioners

This is a petition by a voter in Essex County against the county commissioners of that county for a writ of mandamus to set aside the report of the division of Essex County into representative districts and the apportionment among those districts of the thirty-one representatives allotted to that county by St. 1916, c. 270, § 24, made by the county commissioners under art. 21 of the Amendments to the Constitution.* The ground alleged in the petition is that by the report the constitutional right of the petitioner “to vote for as many representatives, as *60nearly as may be, as the voters in the…