Naumann v. Board of City Canvassers

These are applications for mandamus to compel the investigation by defendants of certain election returns of the city election in Detroit held in November, 1888. Each relator claims to have been elected an aider-man, and to have been counted out improperly. Each applied for an investigation under Act No. 208, Laws of 1887, concerning the correction of frauds and mistakes in the canvass and returns made by inspectors of elections. It is claimed that respondents refused to grant the investigation asked. It is perhaps doubtful whether the sworn petitions presented to them were definite enough to…