GORDON v. DETROIT ELECTION COMMISSION

Calendar No. 33, Docket No. 50,910.

373 Mich. 587 (1964)

130 N.W.2d 384

GORDON v. DETROIT ELECTION COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Opinion filed October 5, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lou Gordon and Thomas R. Sullivan in propriis personis.

Robert Reese, Corporation Counsel, and John D. O'Hair, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for defendant City Election Commission of Detroit.


KAVANAGH, C.J.

The action by defendant city election commission for the city of Detroit granting to Andrew C. Wood the incumbency designation on the ballot, at the primary election held September 1, 1964, "judge of recorder's court, traffic and ordinance division," is vacated and held for naught, for the reason the said Andrew C. Wood had not previously been elected to such office. This case is controlled by the decision of this Court in Burdick v. Secretary...

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