Flanders v. Board of Supervisors

This is certiorari to review the action of the circuit judge in refusing a mandamus to compel the respondent to reconvene and pass upon the petitions presented, and call an election under the local-option statute, so called. It appears by the original petition and answer in the court below that petitions were presented to the board containing the names of 2,757 alleged voters of the county; that there were attached to the petitions affidavits complying with the statute in all respects, except as to the township of Columbia, in which the affidavit of posting failed to state the particular…