State ex rel. Staley v. County Court of Wayne County

HaymoND, President:

This is an original proceeding in prohibition instituted in this Court on August 7,1952, by the petitioner G. Walter Staley against the defendants, the County Court of Wayne County, West Virginia, a corporation, S. P. Fry, Oscar Watts, and W. Frank Harrison, commissioners and members of the County Court of Wayne County, and as such members of the board of canvassers of that county, and Clifford Hatten. The petition seeks a writ from this Court to prohibit the county court and its members from entertaining jurisdiction of an election contest instituted in that court on July…