State ex rel. Sommer v. Calcaterra

These cases were consolidated for the purpose of argument. They involve precisely the same issues, and so will be disposed of in a single opinion. They are original proceedings in prohibition to prevent the Board of Election Commissioners of the City of St. Louis from receiving declarations of candidates for the office of State Senator, and otherwise conducting the ensuing primary and general elections for such office in the senatorial districts into which the Board recently divided the city under an apportionment based on the 1950 decennial census. Relators sue as “citizens of the United…