Schieffelin v. Komfort

This action is brought by the plaintiff as an elector and taxpayer of this state to restrain the boards of election and the election officials of the state from taking steps preliminary to the nomination and election of delegates to the constitutional convention. Pursuant to section 2 of article 4 of the Constitution of the state, the legislature enacted a law which *681provided for a special election to be held on the first Tuesday in April, 1914, and at which there should be submitted to the electors the question whether a convention could be held to revise and amend the Constitution of the…