People Ex Rel. Donovan v. Sweitzer

Andrew Donovan, as relator, filed a petition in the name of the People of the State of Illinois in the superior court of Cook-county, praying for a writ of mandamus directed to Robert M. Sweitzer, county clerk of Cook county, requiring him to issue a certificate of election of the relator to the office of judge of the superior court of Cook county. The court sustained a demurrer to the petition and dismissed it, and the relator appealed.

The petition showed that the names of the relator and of Frank D. Comerford were printed on the official ballot used in the judicial election on June 6, 1927,…