State Ex Rel. Patterson v. Schirmer

By the Court.

This is an original action in mandamus in this court. The relator, Alex Patterson, was a candidate for County Recorder on the Republican ticket at the August, 1934, primary. Leo H. Beckman was nominated for the same office at the Democratic primary, and was also thereafter nominated by petition on the Citizens ticket. Thereafter, on September 11, 1934, Alvin H. Rowe, a citizen and elector of Hamilton county, filed objections with the Board of Elections of Hamilton county against said nominating petition, on the ground that Beckman had theretofore been nominated as a Democratic…