State Ex Rel Charleston Mail Ass'n v. Kelly

Caplan, Judge:

In this original proceeding in mandamus the petitioners, The Charleston Mail Association, a Corporation, Lyell B. Clay, as president of petitioner corporation and as a citizen, taxpayer and voter of Kanawha County and this state, and Robert Mellace, as political editor of the petitioner corporation and as a citizen, taxpayer and voter of Kanawha County and this state, seek to compel the respondent, John H. Kelly, as Treasurer of the State of West Virginia, to permit the petitioners and their duly authorized agents and employees to inspect certain records maintained by him in his…