Word: mandamus
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...CRIMSON wishes to call the attention of students to a case now pending before the Circuit Court of Essex Country. An application has been made for a writ of mandamus to compel the election board of Cambridge to permit students who are not self-supporting to register and vote at elections. Those who are self-supporting already have this privilege, provided they comply with the other requirements of the law. Heretofore, every other student has been excluded from suffrage on the ground of non-residence, being adjudged a resident of the district where his parents live. Owing to its importance...
...decision of Judge Sadler, though not at present in writing final as to the actual issuing of the mandamus against the faculty, which has not yet been done, may be considered as law relating to methods of trying offenders for breach of college discipline, until it may be neutralized by some other legal decision...
Judge Ingraham, in the New York Superior Court yesterday afternoon denied the application by Salmi Morse for a mandamus to compel Mayor Edson to grant him a license to produce the Passion Play...