Cooley v. Mayor of Port Huron

1 McGrath 1188, 41 McGrath 2
CourtMichigan Supreme Court
DecidedJune 3, 1879
StatusPublished

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Cooley v. Mayor of Port Huron, 1 McGrath 1188, 41 McGrath 2 (Mich. 1879).

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.

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