State ex rel. Barton v. Human

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Relator appeals from a judgment of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County quashing an alternative writ of mandamus against respondents, the members of the Board of Election Commissioners of St. Louis County. We affirm.

By her application for writ relator sought to compel the respondents to submit Ordinance 6749 of St. Louis County to referendum at the next general election. The facts were stipulated; no question is posited of the sufficiency of the petitions for referendum. The dispute turns on whether Ordinance 6749 is subject to referendum under the Charter of St. Louis…