Burkett v. Robie

On exceptions by relator to the ruling of a justice of the Superior Court denying the peremptory writ and quashing the alternative writ which had been issued on a petition for mandamus to compel the secretary of state, of the State of Maine, to reject and not count certain votes which had been cast at the primary election held in this state on June 17, 1940, for the nomination of candidates to be voted for at the state election to be held in September, next; to compel said secretary to issue to the rélator a certificate that he had received the nomination of the Republican party for the…