State ex rel. Ballentine v. Peniston

Maxwell, Ch. J.

This is an application on notice for a peremptory-writ of mandamus. The application states in substance that David C. Ballentine is an elector of the county of Frontier in the 26th senatorial district, and that on the 2nd day of November, 1880, at a general election in said county and district for the election of a state senator therein, to represent said district in the legislature of the state, he was legally elected to said office, and received a plurality of all the votes cast at said election in said district for said office; that Henry Snyder also is a resident of said…