State ex rel. Ressel v. Whitney

This is an original application for a writ of mandamus. The relator in his petition alleges that he is a resident of the city of Alma, which is a city of the second class; that at the regular election.held in said city on the first Tuesday of April, 1894, he was a candidate for the office of councilman for the third ward thereof, and that according to the votes as certified and returned to the city clerk he received a majority of all the votes cast for said office, but that the respondents, of whom J. Zerbe is the acting mayor, Charles Sadler the acting clerk, and the others who are acting…