Case Name: GORDON v. DETROIT ELECTION COMMISSION
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1964-10-05
Citations: 373 Mich. 587
Docket Number: Calendar No. 33, Docket No. 50,910
Parties: GORDON v. DETROIT ELECTION COMMISSION.
Judges: Black, Souris, Smith, and Adams, JJ., concurred with Kavanagh, C. J.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 373
Pages: 587–588

Head Matter:
GORDON v. DETROIT ELECTION COMMISSION.
This case is controlled by Burdick v. Secretary of State, 373 Mich 578.
Kelly and O’Hara, JJ., dissenting.
Original petition by Lou Gordon and Thomas B. Sullivan against John P. O’Hara, Ed Carey, and Thomas D. Leadbetter, Chairman of City Election Commission for the City of Detroit, for order of superintending control in the nature of mandamus to compel vacation of their grant to Andrew C. Wood of incumbency designation on primary election ballot.
Submitted July 30, 1964.
(Calendar No. 33, Docket No. 50,910.)
Writ ordered to issue August 3, 1964.
Opinion filed October 5, 1964.
Lou Gordon and Thomas R. Sullivan in propriis personis.
Robert Reese, Corporation Counsel, and John D. O’JIair, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for defendant City Election Commission of Detroit.

Opinion:
Kavanagh, C. J.
The action by defendant city election commission for the city of Detroit granting to Andrew C. Wood the incumbency designation on the ballot, at the primary election held September 1, 1964, "judge of recorder's court, traffic and ordinance division," is vacated and held for naught, for the reason the said Andrew C. Wood had not previously been elected to such office. This case is controlled by the decision of this Court in Burdick v. Secretary of State, 373 Mich 578.
No costs, a public question being involved.
Black, Souris, Smith, and Adams, JJ., concurred with Kavanagh, C. J.