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LINCOLN v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH

326 Mass. 313 (1950)

93 N.E.2d 744

MARTYN H. LINCOLN & others vs. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 4, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C.B. Rugg, F.W. Grinnell, & W.F. Farr, for the petitioners.

F.E. Kelly, Attorney General, L.E. Ryan, Assistant Attorney General, & J.J. Kelleher, for the respondent.

V.A. Canavan, for the intervener.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, RONAN, WILKINS, SPALDING, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

The petitioners, registered voters, seek a writ of mandamus commanding the respondent Secretary of the Commonwealth to refrain from certain acts having to do with the submission to the people at the next State election of a proposed law, the subject of an initiative petition, on the ground that there has not been compliance with art. 48 of the Amendments to the Constitution. The proposed law, entitled "An Act...

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