Territory of New Mexico ex rel. Stockard v. Mayor of Roswell

Citations

• 16 N.M. 340
• 117 P. 846

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS (BY THE COURT).</p> <p>1. The delator, and upwards of five hundred others-,, electors and- residents- of the City of Roswell, signed' and pr-es-ented to the Mayor and City 'Council of said, city, a petition for an election- to determine whether Roswell would establish the commission form of government, so-. called, under the provisions- of Chapter 87, Acts- of 1909, of the Assembly of New Mexico. The petition was referred to a committee of members of the council. Under the circumstances recited in the statement of the case, which follows: Held that the withdrawals from the petition there described were -effectual, and that the peremptory writ, which was granted pro forma, should have been refused.</p>