State Ex Rel. Pittson v. Beemer

OPINION

By the Court,

Carville, District Judge:

The matter involved in this proceeding comes before the court upon a petition for writ of mandamus by L. P. (Paddy) Pittson, as relator, to direct E. H. Beemer, county clerk of Washoe County, Nevada, as respondent, to cause, to be printed upon the general election ballot, to be used at the general election on November 6, 1928, the name of relator as a candidate for the office of short-term county commissioner of said Washoe County.

Relator bases his petition upon the facts: That he possesses the necessary qualifications, statutory and…