State Ex. Rel. Savage v. Robertson

By this original proceeding in mandamus relators challenge the legality of the nomination of Herman L. Bennett as the Democratic nominee for Judge of the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County.

Grover C. Robertson, chairman of the Kanawha County Democratic Executive Committee and one of the respondents herein, issued a call for the holding of mass conventions on August 12, 1942, in the ten magisterial districts of Kanawha County to elect delegates to the Kanawha County Democratic Judicial Convention to be held at two P. M. on August 15, 1942. The purpose of such judicial convention was to select…