State Ex Rel. Schenerlein v. City of Wheeling

Berry, Judge :

The plaintiff in error, Charles A. Schenerlein, filed a petition for mandamus in the Circuit Court of Ohio County, against the defendants in error, the City of Wheeling, a municipal corporation and August L. Dailer, City Clerk of said City of Wheeling, praying that a peremptory writ of mandamus be issued by said Circuit Court requiring the defendants in error to place his name on the ballot as a candidate for councilman from the fourth ward of said city, to be voted on in the city election to be held on June 2, 1959. The petition filed in the Circuit Court alleged that the…