State Ex Rel. Blackwell v. Travers

WEIER, Judge.

This is a suit to compel the Board of Election Commissioners of the City of St. Louis by mandamus to place an initiative on the ballot at the next general election. The Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis granted an alternative writ of mandamus but subsequently quashed it and this appeal followed. We reverse the judgment of the circuit court and order the writ of mandamus to be made permanent.

This controversy centers on whether or not the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners has a duty, as dictated by the St. Louis City Charter, to place an initiative proposition to amend…