SHARPE v. REGISTRARS OF VOTERS OF NORTHAMPTON


342 Mass. 620 (1961)

174 N.E.2d 648

MYER SHARPE & others vs. REGISTRARS OF VOTERS OF NORTHAMPTON & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampshire.

May 9, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luke F. Ryan, for Hogan and another, submitted a brief.

Raymond R. Cross, for the petitioners.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., WILLIAMS, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, & SPIEGEL, JJ.


WHITTEMORE, J.

The judge in the Superior Court ordered that a writ of certiorari issue against the respondent registrars of voters of Northampton to quash their certification of names on a referendum petition brought under G.L.c. 44, § 8A,1 which requires that the petition be signed by "registered voters of the city." The appellants2 from that order (Hogan and...

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