Sullivan v. Secretary of State

On July 30, 1964, over Mr. Justice Adams’ dissent, this Court issued its order of superintending control in the nature of a writ of mandamus, GCR 1963, 711, requiring the defendant Wayne county election commission to provide by its order a ballot designation as “former assistant attorney general” for plaintiff, Joe B. Sullivan, a candidate for partisan nomination to the office of *629prosecuting attorney for the county of Wayne in the then impending primary election.

The defendant board first had granted plaintiff’s request for a ballot designation as “assistant attorney general”, but then on…