Adsit v. Osmun
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus. Relator applied for mandamus to compel the Secretary of State to give notice of an election to fill vacancy in the office of judge of the seventeenth judicial circuit, and subsequently applied for such writ to compel the Board of State Canvassers to meet and examine a certain tabulated statement of votes cast for such office, and determine who is elected thereto. The facts are stated in the opinions.
1Opinion of the CourtMorse, J.
In the first case above, the relator moved this Court as soon as possible. His application for mandamus shows that on September 4, 1890, he was nominated by the Democratic county convention for the county of Kent for the office of circuit judge to fill- a vacancy, and that on September 23, 1890, 25 electors of said county requested the Secretary of State, Gilbert R. Osmun, to give the requisite statutory notice of an election to be held on November 4, 1890, to fill said vacancy in the office of circuit judge. The Supreme Court was in vacation' in the month of September, and at the first…
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