Libby v. English
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On appeal by respondents from decision of the presiding Justice. This is a petition brought under Revised Statutes, Chapter 6, Sections 70-74, to determine whether the petitioners, or respondents, were severally elected to the offices for which they were candidates at the municipal election in ward 2 in Lewiston on the first Monday of March, 1913. The case was heard by a Justice of the Supreme Judicial 'Court, and from the decision by said Justice rendered, the respondents…
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On appeal by respondents from decision of the presiding Justice. This is a petition brought under Revised Statutes, Chapter 6, Sections 70-74, to determine whether the petitioners, or respondents, were severally elected to the offices for which they were candidates at the municipal election in ward 2 in Lewiston on the first Monday of March, 1913. The case was heard by a Justice of the Supreme Judicial 'Court, and from the decision by said Justice rendered, the respondents appealed and the case was thereupon certified to the Chief Justice, under Section 12, Chapter 6 of Revised Statutes. The…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, C. J.
This is a petition brought under R. S., Chap. 6, Sections 70^74 to determine whether the petitioners were severally elected to the offices for which they were candidates at the munici*451pal election in ward 2, in Lewiston, on the first Monday in March, 1913, or whether the respondents were. The case comes here on appeal by the respondents from the judgment of a single Justice. The petition is joint. The statute seems to contemplate a separate petition for each petitioner. But in this ease no objection has been made to the form of t'he proceeding. And as the rights of all the petitioners on the…
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