State ex rel. Herald v. Surber
West Virginia Supreme Court
Mandamus by tbe State, on tbe relation of W. B. Herald, ágáinst E. M. Surber, City Clerk, to compel the delivery of a registration book to the Commissioner of Election.
1Opinion of the Court
¡POEEENBARGER, JUDGE:
The City Clerk of the City of Charleston having refused to deliver to a properly designated and accredited commissioner of election for an election to be held in said city, under its charter as amended by an act passed by the Legislature, Feby. 14, 1919, one of the two registration books of the pre-•einct represented by the applicant for the election supplies for said precinct, under the impression and advice that the law authorized delivery of only one of said books, the commissioner made an informal application here for a writ of mandamus, to which said clerk appeared.
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