State Ex Rel. Dawson v. Falkenhainer

Prohibition. Relator seeks to prohibit respondent, Judge Falkenhainer, from entertaining a proceeding to contest the election of relator as Republican Ward Committeeman for the Twenty-seventh Ward of the city of St. Louis.

The petition sets out the notice of 'election contest wherein it is alleged that respondent George J. Weber was elected as Committeman of the said ward at the primary election held in said city, August 7, 1928, and that on account of an erroneous count of the ballots in several precincts and other matter mentioned in the notice, the relator, Henry Dawson, was returned as…