State ex rel. Belknap v. Board of Deputy State Supervisors of Elections

Pollock, J.; Metcalfe and Norris, JJ., concurring,

*191This is an action in mandamus and comes into this court on appeal. The relator, John G. Bel-knap, says that at the general election for state and county officers held on the 5th day of November, 1912, he was elected to the office of probate judge of Jefferson county, Ohio, having received a plurality of the votes cast for candidates for that office at this election; that the defendant, the board of deputy state supervisors of elections, afterwards refused to issue to him a certificate of election; that this refusal was by the direction and…