State Ex Rel. Watts v. Kelly

Haymond, Judge:

In this original proceeding in mandamus, the petitioner, Lester W. Watts, seeks to compel the defendants, E. W. Kelly, C. B. Vickers and Guy Douglas, Commissioners of the County Court of Fayette County, West Virginia, sitting as the board of canvassers of that county, to reconvene and correct certain errors alleged to have been committed by the board in recounting ballots cast at the August 1954 primary election, and to reject and refuse to count the ballots cast in four precincts for the petitioner and William N. Jasper, Jr., rival candidates for the Democratic nomination for…