KANE v. REGISTRARS OF VOTERS OF FALL RIVER


328 Mass. 511 (1952)

105 N.E.2d 212

JOHN F. KANE vs. REGISTRARS OF VOTERS OF FALL RIVER & another, WILLIAM P. GRANT, intervener.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

March 27, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.T. Farrell, Corporation Counsel, for the respondents.

H.E. Clarkin, for the intervener.

B. Horvitz, (J.J. Harrington with him,) for the petitioner.

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


SPALDING, J.

This petition for a writ of mandamus is brought against the board of registrars of voters and the city clerk of Fall River. The petitioner, who was a candidate for public office, asks that the respondent board be ordered to amend their return because, he alleges, they failed to credit him with certain votes to which he was entitled and credited his opponent with certain votes that ought not to have been counted for him. The petitioner further asks that...

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