Alderson v. Commissioners

Johnson, President :

This is an application for a mandamus to compel the commissioners of Kanawha county sitting as a board of canvassers in special session under the statute after the election held on the 6th day of November, 1888, to settle and sign bills of exceptions to their rulings. The petitioner, John D. Alderson, on the 1st day of December inst., presented to this Court, and asked to have filed the following petition.

To the Hon. Judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia: Your petitioner, John D. Alderson, respectfully states that at the general election held throughout…