State Ex Rel. Palarine v. Ferguson

Respondent Ferguson moved to discharge the order to show cause why a writ should not issue prohibiting him from taking any steps to remove petitioner’s name from the election register in the city of St. Paul.

From the return of respondent Ferguson it appears that he is the commissioner of registration in the city of St. Paul under 1 Mason Minn. St. 1927, §§ 380-393, L. 1923, c. 305; that petitioner’s right to have his name on the register as a legal voter was duly challenged under § 10 of the act (§ 389 of the Code), and that respondent is proceeding under the law to determine such right; that…