Hopper v. Stack
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On rule to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel the defendant, as county clerk, to receive and file a certificate nominating the relator as the candidate of bis party for the office of member of common council from tbe Fourth ward of the city of Hoboken, said certificate being in conformity with section 42 of “An act to regulate elections.”
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Garrison, J.
This is an application for a writ of mandamus to compel the clerk of Hudson county to receive and file a certificate of nomination made in accordance with the provision of the forty-first section of “An act to regulate elections,” as modified by section 1 of “An act relative to the time of elections, &c., in cities of this state,” approved February 28th, 1901. Pamph. L., p. 41.
The right that is set up rests upon these statutes, which have admittedly been repealed, if “A further supplement to an act entitled ‘An act to regulate elections,'’…
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