People ex. rel. Hughes v. May
Michigan Supreme Court
Information in the nature of a quo warranto. At the general election in November, 1852, there was to be chosen a prosecuting attorñey for the county of Calhoun, under section 3, art. 10, of the new Constitution; the whole number of votes given for the office of prosecuting attorney wa's three thousand nine hundred and fourteen, of which C. S. May, the defendant, received two thousand and twenty-seven, and D. D. Hughes, the relator, one thousand eight hundred and…
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Information in the nature of a quo warranto. At the general election in November, 1852, there was to be chosen a prosecuting attorñey for the county of Calhoun, under section 3, art. 10, of the new Constitution; the whole number of votes given for the office of prosecuting attorney wa's three thousand nine hundred and fourteen, of which C. S. May, the defendant, received two thousand and twenty-seven, and D. D. Hughes, the relator, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven. No votes were given for any other person. The county board of canvassers awarded the certificate of election to the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Martin, J.
Among the well settled rules of construction of statutes, are these: 1st, the natural import of the words of any legislative act, according to the common use of them when applied to the subject matter of the act, is to be taken as expressing the intention of the Legislature, unless the intention *605só resulting from the ordinary import of the words be repugnant to sound acknowledged principles of public policy; (7 Mass. 523;) and 2d, if the subject of the statute relates to courts or legal proofs, the words of the Legislature are to be construed technically, unless from…
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