State Ex Rel. Youngblood v. Warrick Circuit Court

—This is an original action seeking a writ prohibiting Eldo W. Wood, as special judge of the Warrick Circuit Court, from exercising jurisdiction of a cause of action involving an election contest in which Warren W. Martin was the contestor and the relator was the contestee.

It appears that at the November election in 1934 the contestor and the contestee were candidates for the- office of judge of the second judicial circuit of the State of Indiana; that the relator was declared elected by the proper election officials, was commissioned by the governor, qualified, and entered upon the duties of…