WILLIAMS v. SECRETARY OF STATE

Calendar No. 45,831.

338 Mich. 202 (1953)

60 N.W.2d 910

WILLIAMS v. SECRETARY OF STATE.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Writ granted November 27, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred B. Fitt, for plaintiffs.

Frank G. Millard, Attorney General, Edmund E. Shepherd, Solicitor General, and Russell A. Searl, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant.


CARR, J.

The facts in this proceeding are not in dispute. At the general election held November 4, 1952, Governor G. Mennen Williams was a candidate for re-election. The returns to the board of State canvassers, made pursuant to statute by local election officials, indicated that he had received the highest number of votes cast for the office of governor. Thereupon the candidate receiving the next highest number of votes...

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