State ex rel. Kelleher v. Board of President of St. Louis Public Schools

This is an original proceeding commenced in this court on the twenty-seventh day of April, to obtain a peremptory writ of mandamus directed to the board of president and directors of the St. Louis public schools, and certain members of said board constituting the “election committee” of said board, requiring said board and the individual members named in the application to set aside certain appointments of judges and clerks made by said election committee on April 18, 1896, for the election of a member ' of said board on the fifth day of May, 1896.

The alternative writ issued, returnable'…