State ex rel. Westfall v. Blair
West Virginia Supreme Court
Mandamus by the State, on the relation of W. H. Westfall and others, against R. S. Blair, Mayor, and others.
1Opinion of the Court
Lively, Judge:
W. H. Westfall, Guy R. Moats, R. R. Hall, W. W. Lawrence, J. G. Cooper, Gilbert Hoyden and Daniel Starr, claiming to have been legally elected as members of the common council of the town of Harrisville, a municipality incorporated under ch. 47, Code, 1918, Ritchie County, at a municipal election therein held on the 1st Tuesday in January, 1921; W. H. Westfall as mayor, Guy R. Moats as recorder, and the other named persons as councilmen, all composing the then elected common council, seek peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the common council in office when the election was…
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