County Board of Election Commissioners v. State ex rel. Sides

This was a proceeding for mandate, brought in the name of the State by the relator, a voter of Gibson county, to require the election com*676missioners of that county to place upon the ballot to be voted at the general election .of 1896, the names of certain candidates alleged to have been duly nominated for election as county officers of said county.

It is alleged in the petition for mandate that said election commissioners met on October 20, 1896, to prepare the ballot to be voted at said election; that prior thereto a convention of the Democratic party of said county had nominated a full set of…