Cummings v. Looney
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application for a writ of mandamus requiring the respondents, as selectmen of the town of Stamford, to call a special town meeting for the election of a town clerk to fill a vacancy in the office caused by death, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Williams, upon a demurrer to the return and answer of the respondents; the court sustained the demurrer and ordered the issue of a peremptory writ of mandamus, from which two of the respondents, Looney…
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Application for a writ of mandamus requiring the respondents, as selectmen of the town of Stamford, to call a special town meeting for the election of a town clerk to fill a vacancy in the office caused by death, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Williams, upon a demurrer to the return and answer of the respondents; the court sustained the demurrer and ordered the issue of a peremptory writ of mandamus, from which two of the respondents, Looney and Hobbie, appealed. On the first Monday of October, 1914, Mr. Waterbury was elected town clerk of the town' of…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The selectmen may convene special town meetings: (1) when they shall deem it necessary, and (2) when twenty inhabitants qualified to vote in town meeting shall make application therefor. General Statutes, § 1793.
The motion to quash was that the application to the selectmen upon which the mandamus proceeding was based was for the calling of a town meeting for the election of a town clerk until the next regular town election, instead of for the election of a town clerk to hold office for the full unexpired term.
The term of office of the town clerk of Stamford was fixed by law at two years, and…
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