Funkhouser v. Landfried

Rose, Judge:

Raymond J. Funkhouser was awarded a rule by this Court requiring A. D. Landfried, J. C. Fisher and Frank Blackshire, as commissioners of the County Court of Jackson County and as such, ex officio members of the board of canvassers of said county, together with Chapman Revercomb and John L: Gillespie to show cause why a peremptory writ of mandamus should not issue as prayed for in the petition filed.

The members of the board of canvassers filed a joint demurrer in writing to this petition and a joint return and answer to the rule issued, as did also the respondent Revercomb. Mr.…