MURRAY v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH


345 Mass. 23 (1962)

184 N.E.2d 336

DANIEL F. MURRAY vs. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 18, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Kelleher (Daniel F. Leary with him) for the petitioner.

James J. Kelleher, Assistant Attorney General, for the respondent Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Irving Goodman for the interveners.

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


WILKINS, C.J.

The purpose of this petition by a registered voter for a writ of mandamus is to command the respondent Secretary of the Commonwealth to prepare, print, and cause to be distributed for use in the November State election ballots which shall not contain a question to be submitted on referendum whether St. 1960, c. 783, entitled "An Act increasing the salary of the members of the General Court," should be repealed. Five of the original signers of the referendum...

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