State ex rel. Oleson v. Minor

Relator made application to this court for a writ of mandamus to require respondent to place on tbe official nonpartisan judicial ballot blank spaces, appropriately placed in tbe proper office division, so that tbe electors of tbe state may, at tbe general election to be bolden November 2, 1920, write in names and vote for persons to fill tbe vacancy in tbe supreme court caused by tbe death, on April 18, 1920, of tbe late Judge Albert J. Cornish.

*230In 1919 a vacancy was created by tbe death of Judge Samuel H. Sedgwick who departed this life December 25, 1919, and for reasons hereinafter…