Grier v. Shackleford

This was an application to the Court of Sessions for a writ of mandamus, to be directed to Samuel J. Thurston, and others, managers of the election for sheriff in Georgetown District, held on the second Monday and Tuesday of January, 1814, in pur*492suance the act of the general assembly of the 15th of December, 1808 ; and requiring them to return the said election void, &c., when, in fact, they had already returned Richard Shackleford duly e^ectet^ j who, under that return, had been commissioned by the governor. The second section of the foregoing act prescribes the mode by which contested…