Buohl v. Board of Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Swayze, J.

This is an application for a mandamus to compel the commissioners of Beverly to submit to- a vote of the people a proposed ordinance to establish an excise commission. The statute (Pamph. L. 1911, p. 462) requires that one of the signers of each paper constituting the petition shall make an oath that each signature to the paper appended is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. This language can only mean that the affidavit to which oath is required to be made shall be distinct from the paper forming part of the…