Donovan v. Suffolk County Apportionment Commissioners

These two petitions for writs of mandamus are brought to set aside a report of the commissioners (elected according to St. 1913, c. 835, § 390) dividing Suffolk County into representative districts and apportioning among them the number of representatives allotted under St. 1916, c. 270, § 24, on the ground that it violates the rights of the petitioners secured by art. 21 of the Amendments to the Constitution.

Since the decision of Attorney General v. Apportionment Commissioners, 224 Mass. 598, wherein it was necessary to declare their first report manifestly contrary to the provisions of the…