State Ex Rel. Harwood v. Tynes

Haymond, Judge:

In this original proceeding, instituted in this Court on February 22, 1952, the petitioner, Jane Marie Harwood, seeks a writ of mandamus to compel the defendants, Buford C. Tynes, John Hallanan, and M. C. Blake, composing the Board of Ballot Commissioners of Cabell County, West Virginia, to place her name upon the official ballot of the Democratic Party to be used in the primary election to be held on the 13th day of May, 1952, as a candidate for member of the Cabell County Democratic Executive Committee from the Seventh Ward of the City of Huntington.

Upon the filing of the…