Calley v. Blake

Lovins, Judge:

This Court awarded a rule upon the petition of Francis D. Calley and A. W. Damron, requiring M. C. Blake, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cabell County, Samuel Biern, and Maxwell W. Flesher, ballot commissioners, to show cause why a peremptory writ of mandamus should not be awarded commanding the respondents to place the names of the relators on the ballots of the primary election to be held May 9, 1944, as candidates for the office of member of The Board of Education of the County of Cabell for the residue of an unexpired term.

The facts are undisputed. At the general election…