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COOLEY vs. MAYOR AND CLERK OF PORT HURON

Michigan Supreme Court1879-06-03
1 McGrath 118841 M., 2

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Opinion

majority opinion

To compel respondents to re-instate relator as alderman, he having been excluded by the action of the Common Council declaring his opponent elected.

Denied June 3, 1879.

Held, that the charter made the Common Council final judges as to the election of its members, and that mandamus would not lie to compel them to reinstate one whom they had excluded without a proper hearing upon the merits.