Nelms v. Vaughan

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition. The object is to restrain the Hon. Chandler W. Hill, judge of the circuit court of Isle of Wight county, from exceeding his jurisdiction in trying a contested election case involving- a controversy over the county offices of that county, on the ground that the *697oath appended to the petition of the qualified voters, hy which the proceedings were inaugurated, was not subscribed by two of the petitioners, while it is admitted that the said oath was duly sworn although not subscribed. By the seventh section of chapter 10 of the Code it is provided that…