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LAMSON v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH

341 Mass. 264 (1960)

168 N.E.2d 480

FRED I. LAMSON & others vs. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 29, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis L. Lappin, (Matthew S. Heaphy, Harris A. Reynolds, Sidney A. Aisner, & Jason A. Aisner with him,) for Lamson and others.

Matt B. Jones, City Solicitor, for Gibbs and others.

Leo Sontag & James J. Kelleher, Assistant Attorneys General, (Charles H. McGlue, Special Assistant Attorney General, with them,) for the respondent.

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

WHITTEMORE, J.

The petitioners in each case seek a writ of mandamus to order that the Secretary of the Commonwealth do not prepare ballots under the recent enactment (St. 1960, c. 432) which reapportions the senatorial and councillor districts of the Commonwealth. The cases were reserved and reported by a single justice on the amended petitions, the answers, and amended statements of agreed facts.

Each of the several petitioners in the Lamson case is...

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