MADDEN v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH


337 Mass. 758 (1958)

153 N.E.2d 321

WILLIAM C. MADDEN vs. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 14, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Kelleher, for the petitioner.

Samuel W. Gaffer, Assistant Attorney General, for the respondent.

Charles B. Rugg, (Roger A. Moore & Robert D. Hartshorne, Jr., with him,) for the intervener.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., RONAN, SPALDING, WILLIAMS, COUNIHAN, WHITTEMORE, & CUTTER, JJ.


WILKINS, C.J.

The petitioner, a resident and registered voter of the town of Lexington, is the Democratic candidate for the office of senator in the Seventh Middlesex Senatorial District. By this petition for a writ of mandamus he seeks an order that the respondent Secretary of the Commonwealth print ballots for the forthcoming State election without the name of the intervening respondent, William E. Maloney, as the Republican candidate for that office. The case is...

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