Case Name: Franz U. Burkett, Attorney-General, By Information, Petitioner for Mandamus, Sherwood Aldrich, Relator vs. Frederick Robie, Secretary of State
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1940-08-21
Citations: 137 Me. 326
Docket Number: 
Parties: Franz U. Burkett, Attorney-General, By Information, Petitioner for Mandamus, Sherwood Aldrich, Relator vs. Frederick Robie, Secretary of State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maine Reports
Volume: 137
Pages: 326–326

Head Matter:
Franz U. Burkett, Attorney-General, By Information, Petitioner for Mandamus, Sherwood Aldrich, Relator vs. Frederick Robie, Secretary of State.
Penobscot County.
Decided August 21, 1940.
Ellis L. Aldrich, Sherwood Aid-rich, for relator.
Edward Bridgham, for defendant.

Opinion:
Exceptions to ruling below quashing alternative writ and denying peremptory writ in mandamus proceedings brought to compel the Secretary of State of Maine to certify the nomination of the relator in the primary election of June 17, 1940, as candidate of the Republican party for representative to the legislature from the class towns of Topsham, Woolwich, Phippsburg, West Bath, and Arrowsic, and for other incidental relief. For the reasons stated in Burkett, Attorney-General (Leach Relator) v. Robie, the exceptions must be overruled. Exceptions overruled.