State ex rel. Short v. Clausen

Relators, as officials of the town of Milton, apply for a writ of mandate to respondent, to compel the issuance of a warrant in the sum of $5,500, in- payment of water bonds purchased by the state. The warrant was refused on account of a doubt as to whether or not the bonds received the necessary three-fifths affirmative vote. In determining this question, we are called upon to decide whether ballots rejected as unintelligible or illegal should be counted in ascertaining the total number of votes cast in the submitted proposition. The language of the statute governing matters of this kind, as…