State ex rel. Lockhart v. Rogers

Lovins, President:

This original proceeding in mandamus brought by Edward Lockhart, Sr., Morton M. Lipman, Joe A. Marino, Fitzhugh Smith, Henry J. Capehart, Jr., and Hal B. Belcher, petitioners, against L. E. Rogers, mayor of the City of Welch, Meyer Bell, Howard Sly, Jess Mullins, Joseph G. Travis and W. B. Swope, members of the council of that city, Hobart E. Payne, city clerk, and the City of Welch, a municipal corporation, is' for the purpose of compelling the defendants to place the names of the petitioners on the official ballot to be used in voting at the municipal election held in the…