State ex rel. Bowland v. Cloud

— This is an original proceeding, instituted in this court by the relator and against the respondent, as clerk of the county court of Greene county, to compel the latter to file the declaration of the former as a candidate for the office of treasurer of that county on the Republican ticket, in compliance with an act of the Legislature of 1907, entitled, “An Act to provide for party nominations by direct vote.” [Laws 1907, p. 263, sec. 5.]

The petition and alternative writ of mandamus states, in substance, that the relator, on April 22, 1908, with a'view to placing himself upon the official…