Case ID: mich_38/html/0095-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

People ex rel. Orland H. Godwin v. Board of Education of Grand Rapids.
    
      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.
    A person for whose sole benefit an undivided interest in fee is held by another in trust absolute appearing on the conveyance is a freeholder. — Per Curiam.
    
    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.
    Submitted and decided January 10.
    
      G. Chase Godivin, for the relator.
    
      Edward Taggart for the respondent.