State Ex Rel. Conklin v. Buckingham

OPINION

By the Court,

Taber, J.:

On September 10 of the present year, petitioner applied to this court for a writ of mandamus commanding the county clerk of Mineral County, as ex officio registrar, to purge the register of voters of the names of forty-six allegedly illegal voters and registrants, most of whom, according to the allegations of the petition, were men of the United States marine corps and their wives. The petition was based upon the grounds “That said persons are not bona fide residents of the State of Nevada and of the County of Mineral, neither are they, or any of them eligible to…