State Ex Rel. Hooper v. Hahn

A petition signed by the required number of electors in the City of Gregory proposed an ordinance fixing the salaries of all municipal officers. Upon refusal of the council to submit the ordinance to the electors of the city, an alternative writ of mandamus was issued by the circuit court upon the relation of a resident, elector and taxpayer requiring the mayor and the city council either to enact the ordinance or submit it to a vote of the electors or show cause why they had not done so. Defendants answered and in justification of their refusal to submit the ordinance claim that the petition…