State Ex Rel. Neu, Jr. v. Waechter

On March 1, 1933, the relator, John Neu, Jr., filed in this court his petition for an original writ of mandamus] requiring the Board of Election Commissioners of the city of St. Louis to print his name on the official ballot as a candidate for nomination for mayor on the Republican ticket, at the primary election to be held on March 10, 1933, under Section 10445, Revised Statutes 1929. The respondent election commissioners on the same day filed a general demurrer to the petition and both parties joined in a stipulation reciting that “in view of the exigency of the matter involved . . . the…