State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Edwards

This is an original proceeding* in mandamus against the Board of Election Commissioners of the City of St. Louis, whereby relators seek our peremptory writ to compel respondents to reject certain referendum petitions, to expunge the same and all orders and resolutions relating thereto from the records of said board, and to refuse and decline to submit the subject-matter of said referendum petitions to a vote of the people of said city, upon the ground that the ordinance in question is not legally subject to a vote of the people under the referendum provisions of the charter of said city or…