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…
1DissentCrosby, J.
Because I believe the decision in these cases to be an invasion of the rights of the voters of the Commonwealth *387as expressed by the State election held November 4, 1919, and therefore wrong, I feel constrained to express my dissent.
Mandamus is an appropriate remedy to obtain the relief sought; that it will lie in the cases presented would seem to be undoubted. G. L. c. 211, § 3. Attorney General v. Boston, 123 Mass. 460, 476. Brewster v. Sherman, 195 Mass. 222. Sinclair v. Mayor of Fall River, 198 Mass. 248. Dullea v. Selectmen of Peabody, 219 Mass. 196. Attorney General v. Suffolk County…
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