Cooley v. State Ex Rel. Aldrich

BUFORD, J.:

The appeal brings for review an order awarding peremptory mandamus in a suit brought to coerce the city auditor and clerk of the City of Clearwater as ex officio registration officer of the City of Clearwater, to register the relator as a qualified elector of the City of Clearwater.

The City auditor and clerk.filed his answer to the alternative writ in which he defended his action in refusing to register the relator on the ground that by the enactment of Chapter 22235, Special Acts of 1943, Sec. 162 of the Charter of the City of Clearwater being 9710 Special Acts of 1923 was amended…