Blackmer v. Hildreth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed August 13, 1901, for a writ of mandamus to be issued to the selectmen of Petersham commanding them to receive the petitioner as one of their board and commanding Edwin 0. Dexter to refrain from acting as a member of that board.
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Petition, filed August 13, 1901, for a writ of mandamus to be issued to the selectmen of Petersham commanding them to receive the petitioner as one of their board and commanding Edwin 0. Dexter to refrain from acting as a member of that board. The case was heard by Barker, J., who ruled that the informalities in the nomination papers of Edwin C. Dexter would not invalidate his election, and that the petitioner, by making no protest after his signing the certificate on the nomination papers on May 7,1901, and by participation in the meeting at which Dexter was elected, and by acquiescence in…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
St. 1898, c. 548, requires that a nomination paper in the case of an election like this shall be filed as early as the seventh day preceding the election (§ 145), and that at the time it is filed it shall have thereon the certificate of the registrars of voters as to the number of signatures which are names of qualified voters and also shall have annexed to it an oath made by one of the signers thereto verifying the truth of the statements therein contained, with the certificate of the person before whom the oath is taken that he is satisfied that the person to whom the oath is administered…
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