State Ex Rel. Brotherton v. Blankenship

Haden, Chief Justice:

On September 4, 1974, the relators, the Honorable William T. Brotherton, Jr., as a member and President of the Senate of West Virginia, and the Honorable Lewis N. McManus, as a member and Speaker of the House of Delegates of West Virginia, and both as citizens and taxpayers of the State, sought to invoke the original jurisdiction of this Court through the issuance of a writ to require the respondent, C. A. Blankenship, Clerk of the House of Delegates and, as such, the keeper of the rolls and the custodian of the Acts and Joint Resolutions of the Legislature, “to publish…