State Ex Rel. Citizens for a Responsive Government Committee v. Widman

This matter is before the court on appeal from a judgment of the Erie County Court of Common Pleas.

Relator-appellant, Citizens for a Responsive Government Committee, filed a complaint in mandamus in the Erie County Court of Common Pleas on July 17, 1989. Appellant requested an order, in mandamus, requiring defendantsappellees, Edward Widman, Sarah White and the Sandusky City Commission (“the commission”), to certify its initiative petition and to place on the next election ballot in the municipality of the city of Sandusky, Ohio, an amendment proposing the following:

“To abandon the…