Ledford v. Lewis, Judge

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice McCandless

— Dismissing petition for mandamus.

Petitioner, Albert S. Ledford, seeks a mandamus requiring the Honorable William Lewis, judge of the Twenty-Seventh judicial district, to vacate the bench and certify his disqualification to preside upon the trial of the action of Albert S. Ledford, Plaintiff, v. Millard Hubbard, Defendant, now pending in the Clay circuit court, to the end that a special judge may be appointed to preside therein.

It is substantially alleged in the petition that plaintiff and Millard Hubbard were rival candidates for the office of…