State Ex Rel. Patton v. Myers

In case No. 24290 the relator prays for a writ of mandamus seeking to compel the respondent to direct the boards of elections of the eighty-éight counties that signers of referendum petitions must personally fill in their residences, wards, townships or precincts on such referendum petitions. In case No. 24289 the relator prays for a writ of prohibition to restrain the respondent as secretary of state and chief election officer of the state from taking any steps toward placing House Bills Nos. 270 and 271, passed by the Ninetieth General Assembly, on the ballot at the election in November,…