People ex rel. Godwin v. Board of Education
38 Mich. 95, 1878 Mich. LEXIS 16
Opinion
Election to Municipal Boards — “Freeholder" defined.
The board of education of Grand Eapids is not vested with any power, judicial or quasi judicial, to go behind the statements of election of any of their members. They are bound to receive those whose election has been ascertained by the statements made out by the canvassers. Local Acts, 1877, p. 440.
Mandamus to compel the board of education to admit the relator to a seat in that body to which he claimed to have been elected.
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People ex rel. Godwin v. Board of Education, 38 Mich. 95, 1878 Mich. LEXIS 16 (Mich. 1878).
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