Andres v. Arnold
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus. Relator applies for mandamus to compel respondent to allow an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed in the circuit court for Ottawa county. The-facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, J.
The only serious question involved in the inquiry which relator seeks to make concerning the validity of the declared result of the election in this case is whether declarations of intention can be made before a clerk of a court anywhere but in his office, or in open court. If those declarations were valid, the other questions need not be considered, whether relating to the remedy or otherwise.
The statutes of the United States are all that we can be governed by, inasmuch as Congress has exclusive power over naturalization. The fact that this or any other state may extend privileges to aliens,…
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