George v. Board of Ballot Commissioners

Poffenbarger, Judge:

The return to the alternative writ of mandamus requiring the Board of Ballot Commissioners of McDowell County, to place on the official ballot to be used in the election to be held on the 7th day of November 1916, the name of S. C. Stewart, who claims to be a candidate for justice of the peace in North Pork District, of said county, under the name or heading, ‘ ‘ The Independent Republican Party, ’ ’ sets up only two matters of defense: (1) that the certificate of nomina*214tion. is void, because many of those who signed it, enough to reduce the number below that required by…