State ex rel. Flannery v. Sidwell

This is an action in prohibition originating in this court. Belator seeks to prevent the respondent hoard of elections from submitting a referendum to the electorate on an amendment to a zoning ordinance.

Belator alleges that the referendum part-petitions did not contain a sufficient description of the issue and that the circulators’ affidavits were affixed only to the second page of each petition and not on every petition paper. Each petition paper consisted of two separate sheets stapled together, with the signatures appearing on the *75first sheet and the description of the change and the…