# Jackson v. Board of Registrars of Voters

> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · November 3, 1967 · 353 Mass. 747

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6448097

## Case

- **Full name:** Joseph D. Jackson & others v. Board of Registrars of Voters of Marlborough & others
- **Court:** Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- **Decided:** November 3, 1967
- **Citations:** 353 Mass. 747; 230 N.E.2d 921; 1967 Mass. LEXIS 986
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Cited by:** 2 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

The petitioners appeal from an order for judgment dismissing a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent board inter alla to certify an alleged referendum petition. The alleged referendum petition, filed with the city clerk on September 13, 1966, was directed to an order passed by the city council on August 15, 1966. Assuming that what was filed by the petitioners with the respondent city clerk qualified as a referendum petition, it was not filed within twenty days following the passage of the protested measure. See G. L. c. 43, § 42. The *748 petition was not in terms directed to a later order passed by the city council on August 24, 1966, the subject matter of which was distinct from that of the earlier order.
J. Fleet Cowden for the petitioners.
Fred L. Williams (Fred B. Williams & Richard S. Temple, City Solicitor, with him) for the respondents.
William J. Kittredge, for the County Commissioners of Middlesex, submitted a brief.
Order for judgment affirmed.

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