Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1967

Jackson v. Board of Registrars of Voters

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided November 3, 1967

353 Mass. 747; 230 N.E.2d 921; 1967 Mass. LEXIS 986

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2 later published cases cite this decision.

Morway v. Town of Webster (Mass. App. Ct. 1990)
Fantini v. School Committee (Mass. 1972)

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Opinion of the Court

The petitioners appeal from an order for judgment dismissing a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent board inter alla to certify an alleged referendum petition. The alleged referendum petition, filed with the city clerk on September 13, 1966, was directed to an order passed by the city council on August 15, 1966. Assuming that what was filed by the petitioners with the respondent city clerk qualified as a referendum petition, it was not filed within twenty days following the passage of the protested measure. See G. L. c. 43, § 42. The *748petition was not in terms directed to a later order passed by the city council on August 24, 1966, the subject matter of which was distinct from that of the earlier order.

J. Fleet Cowden for the petitioners. Fred L. Williams (Fred B. Williams & Richard S. Temple, City Solicitor, with him) for the respondents. William J. Kittredge, for the County Commissioners of Middlesex, submitted a brief.

Order for judgment affirmed.

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