State Ex Rel. Summerfield v. Maxwell

135 S.E.2d 741 (1964)

STATE ex rel. J. Zane SUMMERFIELD

v.

C. H. MAXWELL, Clerk, etc., et al.

No. 12328.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Submitted April 14, 1964.

Decided April 17, 1964.

Mahan, Higgins, Thrift & Graney, R. J. Thrift, Jr., Fayetteville, for relator.

Warren A. Thornhill, III, Beckley, for respondents.

BROWNING, Judge.

In this original proceeding in mandamus, petitioner, J. Zane Summerfield, a candidate for the nomination for the office of prosecuting attorney of Fayette County on the democratic ticket, seeks to compel the respondents, the board of ballot commissioners for…