Curtis v. Cornish
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On petition to establish exceptions to a ruling by the court denying a writ of prohibition. This is a petition to establish exceptions to a ruling by the court denying a writ of prohibition brought under the provisions of Revised Statutes, Chapter 79, Section 55. On January 3, 1912, certain electors in Portland presented to one of the Justices of this court their petition alleging that corrupt practices, contrary to the provisions of Section 11 of Chapter T22 of the Public…
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On petition to establish exceptions to a ruling by the court denying a writ of prohibition. This is a petition to establish exceptions to a ruling by the court denying a writ of prohibition brought under the provisions of Revised Statutes, Chapter 79, Section 55. On January 3, 1912, certain electors in Portland presented to one of the Justices of this court their petition alleging that corrupt practices, contrary to the provisions of Section 11 of Chapter T22 of the Public Laws of 1911, had been committed by the present petitioners in connection with a municipal election in Portland in…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, J.
Petition to establish exceptions to a ruling by the court denying ;a writ of prohibition. This petition is brought under the provisions of R. S., Chap. 79, Sect. 53. A commissioner was appointed to take depositions as is provided by rule XLIII. The depositions have not been brought before us, but instead we have a finding of facts made by the commissioner. But since no question has been made by interested parties but that the facts are correctly stated by.the commissioner, we shall proceed upon that assumption.
The following facts appear in the commissioner’s report. On January 3, 1912,…
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