State ex rel. Gannon v. Cloyd

GUNN, Judge.

Action on original prohibition arising out of an election contest in Jefferson County based on a petition for primary election ballot recount. We granted a writ of prohibition prohibiting respondent circuit, judge from hearing the cause on the petition for election recount in St. Louis County and directed such hearing to be heard by respondent in the Jefferson County Court House, with this opinion to follow.

The primary election combat was for the Democratic Party nomination for the office of State Senator for the Twenty-second Senatorial District, which includes Jefferson County,…