State Ex Rel. Chavez v. Evans

OPINION

Petitioners, eight in number, seek mandamus to require respondent to certify their names to the various county clerks for the offices to which they were nominated by the People’s Constitutional Party. The remaining candidates of that party have already been certified, so we are concerned only with the eight.

There is no question present concerning compliance with the law in the nominating process, timeliness of the filing of the certificates of nomination, or relative to the sufficiency of the certificates. The initial problem is what duty devolved upon respondent upon receipt of the…