State Ex Rel. Whitehead v. Sandusky County Board of Commissioners

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a judgment granting a writ of mandamus to compel appellees, the Sandusky County Board of Commissioners and the San-dusky County Board of Elections, to hold a special election before January 1, 2013, to elect a judge for the newly created Sandusky Municipal Court, for a one-year term to commence on that date and with an election for a full six-year term to be held in November 2013. Because the court of appeals erred in granting the writ of mandamus to compel the special election, we reverse the judgment of the court of appeals in that regard and grant a writ of…