State ex rel. Hanna v. Milburn

Much of the difficulty involved in reconciling the decisions of this court dealing with election board rulings on petitions of candidates has been caused by decisions such as State, ex rel. Kroeger, v. Leonard et al., Board of Elections of Summit County, 151 Ohio St., 197, 84 N. E. (2d), 910, which have required a technical adherence to mere formalities, even in instances where it is clearly apparent that such technical adherence to form could have no reasonable relationship to any purpose that the General Assembly may reasonably have had in requiring the circulation and filing of petitions…