Hovey v. State ex rel. Schuck

This was' a suit instituted by the appellee, in the Marion Circuit Court, against the appellant, as the Governor of the State, to compel the latter, by mandamus, to issue to the relator, William A. Schuck, a commission as the duly elected auditor of Jennings county. The complaint alleges, among other things, that the relator was duly elected to the office of auditor of Jennings county, at the regular election held in the month of November, 1890; that the votes were duly canvassed, and the proper returns made out and filed in the office of the secretary of state, within ten days after the date…