Caldwell v. Bruning

Petitioner seeks a writ of mandate directing respondent, the County Clerk of San Mateo County, to omit from the ballot to be used in the 1966 direct primary and general elections the office of judge of the Municipal Court of the Central Judicial District, San Mateo County, now held by petitioner. We have concluded that an election for this office in 1966 would be unauthorized by statute, and therefore the writ should be granted.

An election for this office was last held in 1964. In that year Judge W. Howard Hartley, the incumbent and petitioner’s predecessor, was elected at the direct primary…