Attorney General v. Tufts
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Information, filed by the Attorney General on May 25, 1921, under G. L. c. 211, § 4, and supported by affidavits of the Attorney General and of Henry F. Hurlburt, Esquire, Special Assistant Attorney General, containing allegations which, as amplified by specifications afterwards filed, were in substance as follows: Nathan A. Tufts on November 7, 1916, was elected a District Attorney for the Northern District of the Commonwealth, qualified as such on January 3,1917, and…
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Information, filed by the Attorney General on May 25, 1921, under G. L. c. 211, § 4, and supported by affidavits of the Attorney General and of Henry F. Hurlburt, Esquire, Special Assistant Attorney General, containing allegations which, as amplified by specifications afterwards filed, were in substance as follows: Nathan A. Tufts on November 7, 1916, was elected a District Attorney for the Northern District of the Commonwealth, qualified as such on January 3,1917, and thereafter continued in that office. He was again elected to that office on November 4, 1919, and on January 7, 1920,…
1Opinion of the Court
The following decision upon these motions was rendered on June 21, 1921.
Rugg, C. J.
This is an information, bill or petition by the Attorney General brought under G. L. c. 211, § 4, for the removal *478of Nathan A. Tufts from his office as District Attorney for the Northern District. It was heard first upon two motions filed by the respondent, one being a motion to dismiss in the nature of a plea to the jurisdiction, and the other a motion to establish limitations upon the hearing.
1. The pertinent words of G. L. c. 211, § 4, are, “A majority of the justices [of the Supreme Judicial Court] ... if…
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