State Ex Rel. Holmes v. Peck

Plaintiffs in error instituted this mandamus action in the Denver district court seeking* to compel the election commission of the City and County of Denver to certify to the council thereof the sufficiency of a petition seeking* to recall’the mayor of Denver'. The lower court, after an extended hearing, quashed the alternative writ and dismissed the action, to review which this writ is prosecuted.

The record discloses that on June 20, 1932, 961 separate sections of a purported petition to recall the mayor of Denver was filed in the office of the clerk and recorder, ex officio clerk of the…