Cooley v. Mayor of Port Huron
This text of 1 McGrath 1188 (Cooley v. Mayor of Port Huron) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Michigan Supreme Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
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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