Legal Opinion
Coleman v. Louison
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 9, 1936PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to test the title of the respondent Louison to office as member of the licensing board of the city of Taunton. Putnam v. Langley, 133 Mass. 204, 206. Parrott v. Plunkett, 268 Mass. 202, 205. Kaplan v. Sullivan, 290 Mass. 67. The case has been heard by a single justice on the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts. He declined to dismiss the petition as matter of discretion and reported the case for determination by the full court.
The petitioner had been duly appointed a member of the licensing board for a term ending on the first Monday of June,…
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