Legal Opinion
Belles v. Burr
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided July 11, 1889PublishedCited by 57 opinions
Error to Gbnesee. (Newton, J.) Case by a married woman for refusal of defendants, as inspectors of election, to receive her vote for school officers. Defendants bring error. Campbell, J., dissenting. The facts, as also the points of counsel passed upon, and the authorities cited, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChamplin, J.
This action was brought against the defendants as inspectors of election of the Third ward of the city of Flint, to recover damages for refusing to receive plaintiff’s vote for the office of trustees of the Union schodldistrict of the city of Flint.
The agreed statement of facts is as follows:
“ The plaintiff is a married woman residing in the Third ward of the city of Flint',, Genesee- county, Michigan, and has resided there continuously for three years last past, and so resided there on the first Monday of April, A. D. 1888, and is 31 years of age.
"That she then was the owner of and had…
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