Lail v. People ex rel. Osgood

An alternative writ of mandamus directing respondent Lail to transmit a recall' petition to the Denver Election Commission was made permanent and he brings error. The petition was for the recall of Stapleton, mayor of Denver, and was tendered to respondent for filing-; he examined it and refused to accept it for filing for the following reasons: (1) - That it was “not signed by qualified electors equal in number to at least twenty-five per cent of the vote * * * for such office at the election at which” Stapleton was elected. (2)' That the petition was, in form, six hundred and five petitions…