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JENSEN v. TURNER

NO. 3016.

40 Haw. 604 (1954)

Alfred JENSEN, a Duly Registered Voter of the City and County of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii v. Farrant L. Turner, Secretary of the Territory of Hawaii, and Leon K. Sterling, Sr., Clerk of the City and County of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii; and Gilbert Ogata, Jitsuo Ono and Masanobu Nakasone, the Duly Appointed Inspectors of Elections of the 25TH Precinct, 5TH Representative District.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Argued October 29, 1954.

Decided October 29, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.K. Trask (also on the briefs) for plaintiff-appellant.

C.R. Ashford, Deputy Attorney General (E.N. Sylva, Attorney General, with him on the briefs), for defendants-appellees.

TOWSE, C.J., STAINBACK, J., AND CIRCUIT JUDGE HEWITT IN PLACE OF LE BARON, J., ABSENT.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY STAINBACK, J.

On October 29, 1954, this court filed a per curiam opinion sustaining the declaratory judgment of the circuit judge of the first judicial circuit of the Territory of Hawaii.

The questions before the court below were, in substance, did Act 318, Session Laws of Hawaii 1949, amend the existing election laws of the Territory so as to give qualified voters the privilege to vote for others than those duly nominated and...

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