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SCOTT v. BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS OF NEWTON

346 Mass. 388 (1963)

193 N.E.2d 262

WELLINGTON F. SCOTT & others vs. BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS OF NEWTON (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

October 18, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick G. Fisher, Jr. (S. Donald Gonson with him), for the petitioners.

Matt B. Jones for the respondent.

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

WILKINS, C.J.

These two cases are directed against the ascertainment of the will of the voters of the city of Newton as to the discontinuance of fluoridation of the public water supply for domestic use. The first case is a petition for a writ of mandamus by five citizens and residents of the city to command the respondent board of election commissioners to refrain from placing upon the ballot at a municipal election to be held on November 5, 1963, the question prescribed...

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