MIKELL v. ROUSSEAU

No. 385.

183 A.2d 817 (1962)

William E. MIKELL v. Robert J. ROUSSEAU, Clerk, Chittenden County Court, Alma F. Sherwin, Clerk, Addison County Court, Bertha V. Miles, Clerk, Orleans County Court, Francis E. Cannon, Clerk, Rutland County Court, Austin T. Foster, Intervenor, Emory A. Hebard, Intervenor, State of Vermont, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Vermont. Chittenden.

Reargument Denied August 1, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmunds, Austin & Wick, Burlington, for petitioner.

Leary & Leddy and Clarke A. Gravel, Burlington, for Chittenden County Clerk.

Lee E. Emerson, Barton, for Orleans County Clerk.

O'Neill, Delany & Valente and Bloomer & Bloomer, Rutland, for Rutland County Clerk.

Austin T. Foster, Intervenor, pro se.

Charles J. Adams, Atty. Gen., for the State.

Before HULBURD, C. J., and HOLDEN, SHANGRAW, BARNEY and SMITH, JJ.


SHANGRAW, Justice.

The Constitution of the State of Vermont directs the General Assembly to make a new apportionment of the state Senators to the several counties after the taking of each census of the United States, or after the taking of a special census by the State for apportionment purposes. Following the 1960 census, measures to accomplish this were introduced in the 1961 General Assembly, but the two branches failed to agree and reapportionment was not carried...

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